Booming Upvotes - Hypocrisy?

It's a good date (Christmas) to talk about hypocrisy. If you have no clue what the word means you can have a look in a dictionary, preferably a paper edition. You know a book with pages, something used quite a lot about 30 years ago because a computer, three devices per person, weren't present in every household not to mention AI dominating us and WikiP changing the meaning of words.

There are talks

If you take the time to surf a bit on Steemit you will read them too.
One discussion is about booming votes, a topic you can find in SCB Monkey Business @hive-152479.

If you want a booming vote you should be active in a community, active on Steemit, write something good and there might be more rules depending set by the community nominating someone.
The maximum booming vote should be 2 per person (per community) and it turns out that the reports show something else. The reason? I can't tell since I am not the one nominating anyone for these types of votes and I'm also not giving these upvotes but someone in a community allowed to divide them does.
All I can say is it isn't me, sorry, and no, I also don't know who receives the forms filled out and decides if it's a YES or NO.

After every report, this is the one from Dec 9 - 15 posted by @adeljose, questions arise, some are posted in the comment section but not always answered (can be no answer makes sense or those who concern it rather keep quiet).
This time it is @nishadi89 who has some questions which I also believe aren't answered yet. By now 3 days passed. I believe that the communities mentioned in the report (except those two who already did) are the ones who should explain why the same persons (no they are all not moderators) receive more than two votes. Anyone?

(I copy-pasted the question underneath to make clear what we are talking about)

@nishadi89 (71)
Authorised User yesterday
Thank you very much for your comment. I read both of the comments you mentioned. They both seem to be following the correct rules regarding booming votes. But I wasn't talking about those people. The above post clearly lists the names of members who receive more than two booming votes per week from the same community. That's what I was talking about.

Do communities follow the rules?

That is what I also like to know. I miss the complete insight but I tend to say no if I look at what is shown. Not everything is clear to me since it feels like a part of the info is not provided to build a clear picture of what we talk about. Am I the only one who is suspicious if the same people receive the upvotes over and over again? I decided to check a part of the writers and what I saw is not very impressive and it makes me wonder: Why them and not someone else?

We all know that "good content" is rare on this platform and once in a while something really good is posted. Now you can get angry with me but this is a fact, although we love to say we all are writers this isn't true. We type, and post but that doesn't mean that whatever we wrote down is good (markdowns don't make it good and it's the same for adding pictures).

By the way, it's true that not every post is read. Moderators reading are rare and by rare I mean very, very rare. It is impossible to spell out every word, think over the text, and write comments (calculate how much time it takes to read 20-40 posts).
How are the nominees for a booming vote selected? Not by reading every post unless you have an army of readers with plenty of time.

Did you ever receive a booming upvote?

Do you know the reason why?
As far as I see it is used

• as a prize for the winners of contests
• a payment for a moderator who also hosts a contest/posts in the community
• a reward for.... (those investing in a community/Steemit/personal source of income for ADMs, founders and their families)
  
  

Yes, if you read till thus far you read it right. The Booming Upvote is an easy way to make an income for some and it's finally clear to me why so many are eager to be a moderator in as many communities as possible.

Am I wrong or wrong?

Even if only one community abuses the system I am right and so are those who doubt if the booming votes are divided in a fair way.

Only 22 communities decide who receives a booming upvote (691 upvotes were given in one week), and all the other communities do without.
Since many Steemians post elsewhere I can only conclude that miracles exist and most Steemians aren't hypocrites. They don't post in communities just for a vote but go their way or stay in the community they feel comfortable.

25.12.24
The title is the prompt and provided by @freewritehouse