Hiya Eon

Thanks for explaining this. I'm wobbling on this issue all the time you know...

Currently, I'm selling votes when my VP is above 90(ish). Seeing as I'm hardly ever in here, it seems reasonable to randomly redistribute some of the reward pool which would otherwise sit there doing nothing. Yeah, yeah, I feel dirty about doing it.

Yes, obvs, people are abusing the system all over the place.

Where I'm at right now is this... I know it's overall not helpful to the future of the platform to have raging bidbot abuse. I know they're generally not profitable. I also know that this will not stop many people from doing it. I make more from selling my vote than I do from writing a blog (although that would be more if I bothered writing more content :p). I don't even need the maths to understand that.

Until this place is populated by more readers than content creators the problem will persist as everyone scrabbles for a place at the front of the tiny genuine audience.

I could do the decent thing and withdraw my delegations/vote selling -- stop getting a ROI -- but for some reason, that just doesn't appeal to me.

Anj x