i am intersting steemit
100% upvoted 
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Outstanding...

Leaving a quick spam comment. Feathers being ruffled? ;)

a super scammy bot owner. Say it aint so. 

Part of me is unsure if this is simply lack of understanding in having proper separation of personal assets and accounts with business assets and accounts.  

![refund.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXq56ALwaEsNu1rnBmM4GrcqwTTfiEAJbHKnqSNo9NSPh/refund.png)

A CEO/employee of a company should never be sending themselves fund to refund/reimburse clients from their own personal bank account. If an A CEO/employee of a company was trying to refund me from their own personal bank account opposite to a corporate bank account I would be rather suspicious. This is not the first time either.  While I can understand why a startup’s CEO tends to do this it is something I would hope a more mature project/company would reframe from doing. 


I can only hope moving forward that if refunds are not being processed by the main business account for whatever reason than a separate account that only handles refunds/payment issues for that service is established and used to deal with overflow/failure to auto-refund/other issues. This would be increasingly needed if the person starts to operate further down the road other projects as well. 


 It might also be a good idea for them to look at their own internal policy’s regarding owner or employees being able to use there internal system to vote.  CEO’s always have to be extra careful and include transparency in what they are doing.  Otherwise issues tend to rise. Sending funds over our blockchain is one heck of transparency that can be easily audited by anyone from the outside.

Blockchain is still one of the greatest thing in this time. It has solved alot of problems, made things easier and brought about transparency

Hard to hide here, uh... this transparent  glass house we live in called the blockchain :) 
Excellent find, I never really understand how the bidbots work. Maybe I'd get it later.

Hmm...

First of all, thank you @abh12345. I appreciate the insight and as always, your intentions. I think this is an important thing to shed some light upon.

My guess is that **most** of the people using smartsteem has **no clue** about databases or how to extract information from the blockchain like you guys are doing on a frequent basis.

Due to that, I would've liked to see the response from the owner of this service more *"properly"* so to speak. 

However, another guess of mine, is that you and the owner of this service have been arguing and debating certain aspects of this service on more than a handful occasions already, which I believe could be the answer for the lack of response or the rather "impolite" answer.

That being said, I still wish the answer would've been different as it would've looked better in the eyes of *others* to have a normal, polite dialog.

Also, I have no database or blockchain experience myself, but I suppose it **should** be possible to extract some sort of evidence, even if you can't send a transfer on Steemit? - If that is possible, that would've been the easiest and probably the best thing to do. For transparency reasons.

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I will **not** remove my witness vote for either of you, because your internal *"fight"* or disagreements are not something I as a voter should have to consider. I don't want to pick a side, and there shouldn't be any reasons for me to choose sides between two different witnesses.

I vote for my own personal reasons, and don't want to base my votes upon arguements and disagreements between different witnesses.

However, whenever you (both of you) openly argue, discuss or debate certain aspects of this particular service, intentions, ROI, rules or whatever it might be, you pretty much **force** people to pick a side based on **your** experience and feelings. - Even if that's **not** your intentions when you're writing the things you do.

- And I personally believe that's the **wrong** thing to do.

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There's no reason for all the witnesses to agree with each other or their intentions, motives or actions, but I think it would be better to keep these sort of things locked away from the regular Steemit users. I cannot see the reason for one witness to attack another one, openly, which seems to be more or less the outcome of any of the interactions you two are having with each other.

I wouldn't feel the same if you talked about these things as **users** instead of **witnesses**. While you're doing it like witnesses, it pretty much feels like a "witness-war" where I'll be forced to pick a side.

I just leave this link here:

https://steemit.com/buildteam/@isnochys/re-buildteam-buildteam-high-performance-rpc-full-node-cluster-20180406t091603672z#@therealwolf/re-isnochys-re-buildteam-buildteam-high-performance-rpc-full-node-cluster-20180406t093229616z

PS: I will remove the self vote before the end of the payout (but only if there are no downvotes which I need to counter). This vote is simply for visibility reasons.
..ok
Just a gentle reminder

I'll keep on saying this till everyone gets to see it....

STEEMIT WILL GET MUCH BETTER IF WE PUT AN END TO BIDBOTS AND BIDBOT OWNERS, THE HARM CAUSED IS MORE THAN THE INTENDED GOOD, THAT IS IF THERE WAS ANY GOOD PURPOSE FOR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

THE LEVEL OF CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION THIS HAS BROUGHT IS UNDENIABLE. I AM ACTUALLY TYPING THESE IN CAPITAL LETTERS TO SHOW HOW SERIOUS THIS MATTER IS. 

ANYONE WHO SUPPORT ALL THESE MALPRACTICES CAN EQUALLY SUPPORT TERRORISM.

HOW LONG WILL WE CONTINUE TO WATCH THE COMMUNITY GET TORN DOWN BY GREED AND CORRUPTION?

Thank you @abh12345, for drawing our attention to this

Now that's really interesting! Lawmakers are above the law. How dare you question them? 
That's how we roll here :)

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Following up with your post and conversation with therealwolf , I thinks there are some underground shitty things happening  on smartsteem. Their voting bot is not transparent

having access to blockchain data makes everything more transparent.  its sad when people try to game the system but it seem here on steemit, the more someone has, the more they will try and game things.

I have never been a fan of bidbots.  I do very much encourage entrepreneurship and when these bots started to appear, I did think, well that's entrepreneurial spirit but I was also aware that in reality the only person to win, was the bidbot owners

Now @smartsteem are using their own bot that others have to pay for.  Not only are the profiting from the bids.  This is not entrepreneurial spirit, but very scam like behavior.

another bot, bot owner and witness  just lost my respect....

this is something new to me, thanks for sharing this information.

<h2>Update:</h2>

I'm standing 110% behind what I said and to show everyone that the payment has been done internally, I've copied out and summarized the part of the code that does exactly that.

Now - this is as far as I will go to *proof* that I'm a man of my word and when I say that I'm paying for the v ote I bought myself, that I mean it!

```
try {
    /*
    let asset = SBD or STEEM
    let weight = custom weight
    let author = custom author
    let permlink = custom permlink
    */

    
    // Get Post
    let post = await get_post(author, permlink)

    // Get curation
    let curation = calc_curation(post.created)

    // Calc the ratio to pay based on USD price of STEEM & SBD - 2nd argument is the wanted ROI (0% in this case), which is undefined in a normal bid-round
    let ratio = calc_ratio(curation, 0)

    // Get account data from blockchain
    let account = await get_account('smartsteem')

    // Calculate current votingpower
    let vp = await calc_voting_power('smartsteem', account)

    // Calculate current vote_value
    let vote_value = await calc_vote_value_from_account('smartsteem', vp, weight, 'SBD', dynamic.reward_fund, dynamic.reward_fund_claims, dynamic.sbd_price, account)

    // How much the vote is going to cost
    ratio = vote_value / ratio

    // Vote on Post
    let result = await vote(author, permlink, weight, true, 'smartsteem')
    if (result) {

      // Paying out delegators
      for (let delegator of await get_all_delegators()) {

        // Custom share for delegators based on profit_share - 0.95 are the 95% profit shares
        let share = (ratio * 0.95) * (delegator.profit_shares / 100)

        // Either round on 3 dec after comma or 8 based on if the amount >= 0.001 SBD / STEEM
        share = share >= 0.001 ? round(share) : __round(share, 8)

        // If asset is SBD => add to sbd pending profit
        if (asset === 'SBD') {
          delegator.pending_profit += share
          total_pending_profit += share

        // If asset is STEEM => add to steem pending profit
        } else {
          delegator.pending_profit_steem += share
          total_pending_profit_steem += share
        }

        // Saving delegator
        await delegator.save()
      }
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error)
  }

```

The sponsor payout is then updated for https://smartsteem.com/delegators



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You're the biggest vulture there is on steem, @abh12345.

Let me tell you something: I will not give into bullying and false facts.

I paid for my bought vote internally - which was added to the delegators revenue inside the database.

There was no time to send it as transfer because blocks were not synced due to node-problems.

> One of the positive features of this rule is to allow curators to be able to pick up some rewards on the post - a large early vote increases the author rewards percentage substantially, by reducing the curation rewards percentage.

That is YOUR reason why we introduced the curation limit - not mine or smartsteems!

The 30 minute rule is to make sure that bidders can calculate accordingly. Otherwise some users will bid right at the end of a bid-round and destroy the whole round for everyone else.

The code for the manual vote is smart enough to calculate that an earlier vote results in a higher vote-price due to less curation.

Which means: **delegators received even more money from the manual vote**.

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To everyone else who reads this:

Are you really going to support a bully who is straight up disliking the fact that I'm running the most caring voting-service & bid-bot?

Smartsteem is paying out 95% of the profit. (smartsteem.com/delegators).

Payouts are once per day - on the blockchain. (https://steemd.com/@smartsteem)

The rest is happening behind the scenes in a database.

I have never and will never give myself free votes from smartsteem without payout delegators.

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PS: I will remove the self vote before the end of the payout (but only if there are no downvotes which I need to counter). This vote is simply for visibility reasons.

Did he do it on any other post or only this one?