RE: ⚠️ Rip-Off Alert ⚠️ @jerrybanfield Is At It Again To Rip People Off
He's been here since May 2017. He's has more than 15,500 followers and he publish an average of 3-4 articles per 24 hour. 7 days per week. - He's also a witness and he has great support which is why he reach anything between $80 and $200+ on his posts.
Even though I personally don't like established Steemians like him creating 4+ posts per day, as they already earn tons of money compared to most Steemians, I guess it's what most Steemians want. Otherwise they wouldn't upvote everything he does. That being said, it seems like Jerry has reduced the amount of articles a little bit, as he was creating 4+ on a daily basis previously. - So that's good I guess.
However, to do something like this. To sell witness information and to offer accounts for $50.. - That's just shady. And greedy.
I still like to read some of his posts, as I believe he brings value... But this was too much. - Thanks for the heads up. I've pressed that "follow" button and I hope I'll see great things from you in the future.
I agree with the thrust of your points, however:
"Otherwise they wouldn't upvote everything he does."
I think this is basically because of the (bad) way curation rewards work and the autovoting situation.
I add to that the automatic voting is another reason they will keep voting his posts even if he does 10+ per day.
Which of course is caused by the curation rewards.
Human greed is the root of all evil indeed!
"his posts even if he does 10+ per day."
Definitely a problem! Curation rewards need to be reworked.
However, if he did post that often, I'd bet he'd lose some voters. I'm careful watching for that with my votes (though I just set them up).
curation needs fixing
I'd say so.
Yeep.
He post 4 times per day 7 days a week because he is in a closed circle of votes, all the big guys are voting so he knows no matter the fuck he writes is gonna make $100 $150 each post. He even upvote himself all his posts, he is selling a guide to be a witness, and now almost selling accounts. So if you think about this, he is doing a lot of shit in here agains the community. "Do as I say not as I do"
" He even upvote himself all his posts"
Nothing wrong with that.
I know there isn't a law about it, I'm only three months old in here and people always talk about the self vote as a selfish thing, I remember even reading a post about cutting the selfvoting. In my opinion if you are a big user, or even a witness you should try to share your vote with others. We keep talking about "The community" and we keep the closed voting circles, selfvoting with 100% and even selling new accounts to newbies, in my opinion that's not a good example to others if you are a witness. Anyway as I said I'm only three months in here, so maybe I'm wrong about this.
Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with voting on your own blog posts. If you don't think they are high enough quality to vote on, why are you writing them?
99% of people here can't get to Hot/Trending without at least voting on their initial post, because the pending rewards have a lot to do with visibility.
I don't like instituting rules that only apply to users of an arbitrary size, so I find it hard to rag on self-voting on blog posts.
I know I get your point, you seem to very much more experienced in here than I am, I'm gonna apply your advise from now on, thanks for taking time to answer and explain.
I'm happy I could help out!