He implemented "self-voting" because it makes it really easy to spot abuse, otherwise people would have alt accounts which they would vote with. The same reason why he implemented a logarithmic curve, so it dissuades people from splitting up their stake and make it seem as if they've acquired a following when it's only a bunch of their alts self-voting.
The blame isn't on who makes the rifles, ever. The blame is always on who uses the rifles for evil.
On that point let's consider exactly how you care about your investment apart from the ecosystem which gives your investment value when you use your investment to figuratively shot yourself in the foot. This passive income comes with a price you are happy others are paying for, by directly devaluing the function of Curation and then by enriching others who have the same short sighted mentally like yourself. It's probably falling on deaf ears so I'll leave it at this: your passive income only works because others still value curation, otherwise were everyone to do as you, there would quickly be no reason to invest in a pyramid ponzi scheme.
Lol, I just said that I'm not posting with the reason of self-voting or whatever. If you look at my posts I do deliver quality but if you just wanna bash me thats fine...I don't care. I'm involved even in a local steem meetup group so don't blame me for the things that others are abusing this System. I'm just saying that users like hajin who really don't vote for others are only looking for short term ROI and they still can do it. So Steem should think about some kind of system where even guys like him can get their needs satisfied without posting garbage. But only complain about this people and try to talk moraly wont help anybody here. We need working systems were everybody ia happy and fits into his role.
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Because not everything is just black and white. Bots do have an important role to play for people who use them wisely. If you want make your good quality post (maybe you have developed an App or Project that needs attention) than you can spent money on Bots to promote your post. That is not a bad thing and if people like me delegate to a Bot I'm loosing out on curation profit. Therefore the Bot pays me some Steem out. And you should also think about whales with 100K SP. If they want to curate their power to 100+ people a day thats not possible. Thats why they need the curation made automatically with a Bot.
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