I downvoted your post with my own vote, and that of soome of the accounts i control because i do not feel its reward is a responsible use of the reward pool. I will continue to do so with the accounts sp I control so long as that remains my opinion. If and when i have the time and inclination to add all 5000 of my accounts to my command line interface, i will use all of them to downvote your posts so long as I feel that they are not a responsible distribution of the reward pool. All told, i have around 80-85Ksp to use for this purpose.

What you are doing is dishonest, IMO. You set one set of rules, then changed them and required customers to "opt-out" of the change.

As long as the guild is "opt-out" i will also be downvoting to partially counter any use of the extra "guild vote". If the guild is "opt in" i have no problem with it. Obviously it is your customers choice to vote for what they wish, automated or not.

As to the issue that the many votes cast make it seem as though the multiple votes represent many unique opinions (versus simply mine), there is nothing I can do about that except be straight forward that the accounts do, in fact, belong to me. When i bought them SP was around $1 , and I got them for around ten cents per SP. If you or anyone else wants to purchase them from me at that price, yu are welcome to do so. But until you do, it is my SP to use as i see fit and i will continue to use it as I see fit.

Your business model is precisely the type of abuse Hive account@dan describes in the white paper and bitcoindoom describes in his game theory post -- serveral accounts conspiring (or in this case allowing someone else to use their keys) in order to pump up the reward for a worthless post and distribute the increased reward n^2 curve linearly. As long as that is the case, it will have my downvote.

And, as i have said many times, my downvote is not personal, or an attack, or anything else mean or nasty. It is simply my sober and rational expression of an opinion about the posts value. I should also point out that my accounts are not bots. Though i cut and paste their votes as a batch into the command line, I decide each vote manually, according to my own, possibly sober, judgement.