Today I saw a post from one of the users on Scorum. He had taken the time to look for someone benefiting more than normal and he did it in a very thorough way, one would think at first glance and that is if you per instinct are always looking for pure selfish movements, which seems the first that comes to mind in today's online sphere of individuals meeting across cultures, education, upbringing, environment and language barriers.
The link to this post is here:
https://scorum.com/en-us/football/@tszunami/message-for-the-ceo-abusing-the-system
He spotted three major accounts each supporting the comments from my own account the @bloggersclub. His idea was that these accounts supported the comments from bloggersclub on numerous cases, telling at the same time that there was no support of content itself which there were in all cases, that focus was purely enriching yourself via the upvoting of own comments performed by other accounts of your own.
He forgot to mention on all counts where bloggersclub has received upvotes for thorough comments, that same article which received the comments received same amount of upvotes from same mentioned three accounts. It is worth noting that the upvote on comments was done purely dedicated bloggersclub due to that account commenting on behalf of four accounts at least when it comes to the thorough comment. I did mistake at one time where alibaba account also received upvote.
It means that an article receiving from 40-55 USD four times from four accounts also benefited a good comment from bloggersclub who in return received an upvote with some 40-55 USD from three accounts
Big question here?
Is this abusing the system? If it is considered abusing the system then fair enough, I will not do it again, however, what's to stop anyone else doing this and not come forward like I do now, and the most important question does upvoting like this harm the system and the platform?
Does it affect the economy if you have multiple whale accounts upvoting each other?
That's the big question, which I hope this post will help solve
If it can be argued it does affect the payouts to all participating parties in a negative way, then for sure I will not do it again, as that was not the intention from the start, point is I saw the possibility of doing so, I saw nothing bad in it since it was possible.
I saw it as an added value to the work I am doing rewarding content based articles, simple as that.
If anyone thinks that I did it for money, well then think again as I believe I make enough on my own and consider my own working hours worth much more than what I could earn here, so this action was more a way to consider it worthwhile business wise than anything else.
Have a look for yourself on the 5 different articles supported yesterday:
https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@realhus/scorum-goals-beginning-purpose-and-expectations
https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@nhl/a-reward-system-for-reporting-google-translations-mostly-and-other-abuses
https://scorum.com/en-us/football/@hassan/the-legend-of-johan-cruyff-and-message-for-us
https://scorum.com/en-us/poker/@mikey/today-s-the-day-representing-scorum-at-the-heartland-poker-tour
https://scorum.com/en-us/cybersport/@robin-ho/og-held-the-international-2018-champion
5 accounts each of them receiving some average 200 USD upvote, and only 5 as I had no more time and I had to read them all first. That means a total of 1000 USD in voting power spent, and to my bloggersclub account I believe was added some 150 each when comments was added, potentially some 700-750 USD. I might add I only upvoted these comments because I spent time writing them. The fact that I then managed to get more back on one comment than some received on their article is irrelevant really, if it is possible to do so is what I would counter argue..
I believe I could curate up to 2000-3000 USD per day if given proper resources to upvote within the one hour I would normally have available to do so daily.
Today I was asked why I did not have those three extra accounts upvote the following also when I had done it for the other 5, well it was not the time, and asking me why I did not when already contributing with full upvote on other article from same account already it seems not fair. I actually supported her first article in same way so not sure why ask for more?
Let's get some facts straight.
I am the CEO of Openledger, Ronny Boesing, a Danish guy who has until now in all his adult 33 years of business given much more than he has received with the core belief that if you give enough at one time it comes back to you tenfold. Well I believe that if I support Scorum now and curate good content it will come back to me in increased value of the scr tokens and in this way I have actively supported the system in a proactive way.
The Voice of OpenLedger
I created bloggersclub for the intention to have one account to be used when commenting on articles and content in general. This one has been created to be the voice of OpenLedger on Scorum and I do have a wish to stand before you all with full integrity and the ability to always be able to face any of you and tell you what I do here is for the good of the platform and essentially for the good of my holdings as well.
So to be clear I am here to support as many great writers as possible, and if I am able to make money within the limits and rules given, then I will do that as well.
I created the three other accounts initially with the idea of being able to support a writer/blogger/author four times with 5% rather than just one time with one big account 5%, hearing that curation wise it would offer more value this way, so be it.
I created these three with names allowing me to offer my account @alibaba as the cave to all the treasures available and @nxtofkin a family member supporting alibaba to carry out his daily chores of giving back to community. I was trying to build a story around future support. I created @t-rex as the ferocious account character looking for killer articles worth dying for. Again I thought it an interesting entry point to give each account an identity.
My aim is to give, but dont ask me when
My aim is with this total amount of voting power to give all deserving authors a chance to benefit sooner or later from these accounts, asking me when is not the right way, I am however already in touch with a few writers and hope to add some more to form a "board of goodwill" of a kind, all of which will then be able to help me dive into all the worthy content writers of Scorum and remove the ones that are not, and in this way support quality only, when placing my upvotes.
Curating a lot of content is my wish
I believe I have enough value of voting power to curate a lot of great content now and in future. I would ask you all to believe my good intentions instead of thinking of me just like anyone else because I am not, and I have never been same as anyone else, and will never be.
I believe in transparency
Transparency is who I am, and the three accounts I meant to introduce one by one, but understand now that it's hard to work out a strategy when some people see ghosts and thieving the moment they see something they don't understand. My life in blockchain so far stands 4 years in which I have faced many ups and downs, one thing I have never done is go back on my word.
The business in it all
Up until this moment I have only started trying out the platform, and look at the stirring up I have done already, but note also that value has gone up in last days also, not that I have necessarily caused this, I did however take 173000 scr and vested them long term into SP's, I have spent last two days sharing the content articles I have upvoted onto my more than 20+ Facebook groups, shared to my LinkedIn +9000 Linkedin followers, tweeted on my two Twitter handles and Google+ in some cases as well.
I did all of this with the intent to make Scorum known to the world, without any proof of getting anything back in return and I don't expect to stop just because of this kind of comments, as I consider this a part of evolution to better understanding of what's possible and what's not on the world's most attractive sports media platform soon to involve betting as well.
On top of all I am expecting to present a business case in coming days also to spread a light to additional ways of allowing me to interact with as many content writers as possible, and i order to give them added incentive to perform and deliver accordingly.
I believe I am a giver, lack of understanding for my actions may well make me look as a taker, but ask yourself what can I possibly take from this platform without giving back tenfold?
PS! To you the writer who got upset and felt I used the system wrongfully I offer you the benefit of the doubt, and will offer to curate your future articles on the same level of quality criteria as any other ones to appear on the Scorum platform. This goes for anyone else for that matter who felt they needed to comment negatively to the origin of the post that made me write this feedback. I bear no hard feelings at this early stage where we all have same goal as to where we wish to see Scorum in future!
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