I am noticing a lot of posts about Hive account@bellyrub today. I haven't bothered to read any of them with a genuine level of attention, but from what I have scanned through, it would seem that the owner of the Hive account@bellyrub account has been ripping people off or some shit.

I have a very easy solution to this problem.

Stop paying for votes.

The whales had an incentive to vote on good content. Curation rewards.

When the community made the decision to start paying for votes, that incentive was negated.

Now, instead of having an incentive to vote fairly, they now have a deterrent to doing so. The more votes they dispense organically, the less voting power they have to auction off.

Thus, it should be very simple to understand that paying for votes reverses the distribution of STEEM by redirecting the wealth of the platform back to its original sources.

For as long as the community continues to pay for the votes that were coming to them anyway, the whales will get even more powerful, and have even less reason to vote organically because everyone will be coming to them to pay for votes once no one else has the power to reward the community.

So, to get to the point... My thoughts on this Hive account@bellyrub problem are;

The poor and/or malicious management of a pay-for-votes service is an insignificant problem. The real problem is the fact that such services exist, and are getting used by far too many people who fail to understand that their actions are directly contributing to the problem that caused them to pay for votes in the first place.

Stop buying votes, you idiots.

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