Bad Behavior: Bribing for Upvotes
In addition to these disapproved behaviors:
- f4f: I follow you, please follow me
- begging for upvote: I upvoted your post, please upvote mine
- upvoting at 100% your own "nice post" comment
I just have been witness to another bad behavior:
Bribing for Upvote
source
Somebody sent me 0.001 SP with this memo:
- Bussines proposal: Hi vcelier If you upvote this post with 100% of your voting power I will return to you 50% of the steem dollars from that vote as soon as I get paid: (followed by a link to his post)
I absolutely dislike this kind of attitude.
About bribing,it has some effect and I think it is inevitable.So we just live with it.real quality articles still will stick out eventually
I never felt that way. Rape, theft and murder are also inevitable, but I would never say - "we just have to live with it." It sounds too much as resignation :) Corruption is wrong and like all other crimes it has to be addressed and fought. In my opinion corruption is only second to war in destroying human communities.
As for quality - Steemit is one of many experiments on the internet trying to make a systemic way of promoting quality, but I am definitely not sure it works perfect in its current form...
That's pretty much my feeling too. Still, it's the first time I read about this behavior. It's nice that someone bribes you in a public memo.
Also anyone could just post 10 comments or post and upvote them all and would get 100% not 50% of their votes.
I agree, the more time you spend here the more evident it becomes that quality tends to win out over this type of behavior.
I feel sad now. Nobody offers to bribe me.
You want me to bribe you? ;-)
SO FUNNY SIR PLEASE FOLLOW BACK @vcelier
ha ha
I have said for years that I take bribes. Hasn't worked yet.
Bribe me . but in a legal way haha
Kickback!
Totally agree with you, i'm new to this and I've never done that
That's ridiculous. and as part of community, we should continue to share and report this type of behavior so we can keep the community clean. Thanks for doing this.
Thats when you know you've made it. When people are sending you steem to think about upvoting their posts. They just ask me in the comments and dont even upvote my post.
Finally, someone has said it. Thanks for this heads up.
Yes all those things I hate on here, luckily I am a very small Minnow so not seeing to much of it on my posts but I hope somehow this sort of behavior is curtailed somehow it takes away from all the good on this site
I've seen these things. I thought it was part of the local culture.
The bribe thing is really annoying. It is a shame when folks only focus on making money than contribute quality content.
One more annoying thing is plagiarism. We need a way to ban people after 10 strikes of bad habits exhibited.
yes i agree, bots that sell upvotes are taking advantage of the steemit platform, and not using it the website like its intended to be. these accounts should be permanetly banned
no one gets banned in here. That's not part of the deal.
people are sent into reputation dungeon, but not banned.
when they get hit by whale by downvote for those behaviors, their reputation hit down under 25 does get them ghost. Don't think account can be banned. It's decentralized.