You are right....nothing here is proof of brain at all.
You continue to miss the point. The content is not in question, nor is any content that is upvoted by SBI. What is in question is the non-proof of brain upvoting of SBI or any voting bot for that matter. An SBI upvote is not an indication of any value of content - good or bad - due to it being a blind vote.
The tieing of your upvote to some marker of personal positivity; instead of a merit felt for the content of the post; shows that you still don't get it.
It may interest you to know that a post of mine has been downvoted due to someone giving me SBI somewhere along the line. So this is not meant (nor are likely the SBI downvotes) as a personal attack but an attack against bot voting; regardless of how much lipstick is put on that pig.
So you are saying that my post isn't worth the 50 cents SBI upvoted it then?
Do you see the logic in your reasoning?
'This post (regardless of quality) got a vote from a 'bot'...So I'm going to downvote it no matter what...!!!'
You are acting, in fact, like a bot lol
The downvote in the example is to counter the blind robotic vote, not to judge the content of the vote. Indeed, one could have robots blindly negating blind votes.
Even if a human makes the upvote it is subjective. But that is what Proof of Brain is meant to be!
You may come along and deem that the post is not worthy of taking from the reward pool and downvote it. Both of those votes would be Proof of Brain!
Proof of Brain is subjective and no guatentee for good quality. As the saying goes, common sense is not so common. Yet bot voting is not proof of anything.
but....you downvoted regardless of the quality of content.
thats counter 'proof of brain'....it's proof of something though that's for sure....thanks for keeping steem so clean lol
A downvote has no cost to me in the present HF. An upvote costs the bot in RCs. The difference in costs, coupled with EI reward split, is what is making voting bots no longer as profitable as manual curation.
If you don't get it no problem. My micro influemce is not worth the typing if you can't grasp the larger picture.
Nothing personal. It's only business.
The larger picture is...Downvotes are scaring everyday people away from Steem. If you don't get that....Well. Yeah. Keep using your 'free' downvotes....It's working out really well.
My assumption is that your observations are anecdotal at best. Heaven forbid if your everyday people had to suffer the critique of real world editors.
My anecdotal observation has been that golddiggers come and go at the rise and fall of the fiat exchange of STEEM.
The big picture was referring to the fact based observation that voting bots are in marked decline and the somewhat agreed opinion that the trending page is worth looking at now, with the recent changes in the last HF, which are two good things for this project in my opinion.
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See that's just it...
Everyday people shouldn't go through 'real world editors' and this lie that Steem must only have Pulitzer Prize winning articles and content is insane.
No it's not anecdotal. I work with hundreds of community members every single day and bust my ass to bring people to Steem.
Two things scare them away the most....The confusion with account keys and the potential of downvotes.
Heaven forbid you create a blockchain of encouraging and supportive members....