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RE: Learn to Code Update: BYTE:STEM Diesel Pool Coming April 13th
Is it considered bad form for a curation account that I control to upvote my posts? It usually only upvotes my posts when it can't find other posts to upvote ... BYTE doesn't have 10 posts a day yet.
O.K. I want to be a little careful here. This is my own personal opinion and not that of @learn2code or the Learn to Code tribe. The self-upvote issue can be controversial and there's no need for the tribe to officially pick a side when it isn't necessary.
Speaking as @holovision or @holovision.stem, my views not necessarily representing those of the tribe:
Within reason I don't think self-voting with an alternate account is unethical. If the account is meant to curate certain content and the self-vote is the same percent as you would give if the exact same post had been written by a complete stranger, then I don't personally see that as a problem.
If I were you I wouldn't use the Verify Your Brain tribe tags in the self-upvote posts. That tribe has chosen a side on the self-vote issue and they are most definitely against self-voting.
That's one of the main reasons I prefer POB over VYB. In my personal view VYB is like a homeowners association on the Hive blockchain. You know how when letters are read in movies and the voice of the person who wrote the letter narrates what the letter says? When I was reading the VYB introduction post I heard Phil Hendrie doing the Bobbie Dooley character voice narrating the VYB intro in my head.
Again, just my own personal views as @holovision or @holovision.stem.😁
People are strange. One never knows what will set someone off. The video was interesting. People drawn into denouncing witches can become more destructive than the people denounced as witches.
VYB went a little over the top in their distaste for self-voting.
But they do have a point. Both HIVE and SteemIt are dominated by groups that harvest rewards without providing much value.
Of course we are all trying to harvest rewards. Curation accounts harvest coins by upvoting content. IMHO, if the curator is sticking to its formula, then it is providing value. A curator account is only abusive if it upvotes posts outside its dedicated market.
I think that most most of the abuse takes place in the comment section. I upvote comments to encourage commenting. I upvote comments whose rewards are under $0.02 to sweep the dust.
Again, it is difficult to determine what is abuse and what is not in the comment section.
Just Some Brainstorming
Hey, I just had an idea.
We could create a tribe dedicated to harvesting HIVE rewards. The tribe could encourage members to upvote low value content in comments. To hide the design we could make up a word like, maybe, "treads."
The tribe could encourage self voting on the low value content in the treads.
I think that such a tribe could harvest the lion's share of the reward pool.
Come to think of it. Lion would be a good theme for the tribe.
We could give the coin a cat-themed symbol like MEOW.
Ooops. Never mind. Someone else is working that idea.
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