It's okay @berniesanders, they just want to tell you who,what,when, and why to vote for someone. After all you are not <b>Smart enough</b> to do it yourself.

> Accounts that consistently either like their own content, and/or continuously like the content of the same accounts, and/or continuously like the content of accounts that have been associated as “bots” will lose influence every week. Accounts that consistently like content from users they haven't liked before gain influence.

If this guy is honest about helping minnows, then self voting would be beneficial since his steem power will get a boost.

lol Feel the Bern?

@berniesanders We'd like to reflect back to you the hateful nature of your perspective. Were doing the best we can to share positivity and fantastic ideas/articles and thoughts with our shared community. 

Why do you spend so much of your time and energy attacking us?

@berniesanders we found that having all of the bot comments makes it difficult for this article to be used as a conversation thread. We don't see why its rude to hide those comments, will you please elaborate on why you feel it is wrong for us to clear the comment space for other peoples solutions to be more easily seen?

Out of all the accounts, I hope that you take this one out first. People may not like you, but you are my hero for calling them out on their shit. Everyone else just sees dollar signs and stays quiet. I don't like scammers, and spammers, and I appreciate what you do. 


You are a witness to believe in @nextgencrypto

With love,
shello

>FYI - on Friday I'll have enough SP back to counter all of your purchased hypocritical votes.

I didn't expect that you will come back here with power. If this is true, then that would be great :)

Thank you, Bernie!

> For this example let’s assume the Hedge-Fund originally buys 100M Steem with 84M USD worth of Cryptocurrency. (...) When the Price of Steem goes from 0.84 to 7 dollars per Steem because of this move, that 100M worth of Steem is now worth 700M. 

Such a nonsense wouldn't have ever made it to the trending page without buying the position.

>FYI - on Friday I'll have enough SP back to counter all of your purchased hypocritical votes.

Some people fight for noble causes, to bring the Earth and its people to a better place. I see you have other priorities.

I find it genuinely interesting that you find it rude to downvote bots. I'm serious about being genuine: understanding people's value systems is something I really like delving into. What is the source of this perceived rudeness? Basically, I'm asking you directly: why are you spending your most precious resource, time, doing something that counter-acts collective goodness? That doesn't seem like something a rational person does. What do you gain/what do you think you're accomplishing? Why does berniesanders wake up in the morning/what purpose do you want your hands to work towards?

We have actually fostered a relationship with several of the bot owners, so it's not like we're taking what we can get and snubbing the owners. Likewise, we are using this to step into the forefront of Steemit to both grow the entire platform and spread the wealth with our Steemit guild; a process which we have been open and transparent about - even communicating with the developers of the site about the state, growth, and foreseeable problems of the site. From a position of knowledge, I find it very difficult for you to posit a counter argument that does not simultaneously align with the stagnation of the systemic growth of Steemit.

@berniesanders @inquiringtimes @surfermarly @fulltimegeek @sneak @noisy and everyone else who is reacting negativley to this posting.... 

If you want to see the steem community grow.... we recommend trying positive communication instead of immidiantly smashing down on what you don't like. 

There is no guide to steem. No list of steem community protocols we've been able to find. No way for us to know what to and not to do.... So we're doing the best we can to figure out how to be here in a good way. 

In an move to share an interesting conversation and offer help and thoughts towards solutions for steem.... You have met us with a lot of hate. 

In the future, we invite you to be kinder to new people coming into this community offering to share. It will go a very long way towards the growth of this community. 

So. Is there a cut off limit of what is too much to boost? At what point can we use mercenary upvote bots without attracting your wrath? If any of our posts hit trending now, are you going to shoot us down? 

What will it take for us to be in peace? 

@inquiringtimes we changed the steemfest tag since you mentioned that this post is considering spam in that catagory. We'd like you to know we never post plagurized information. We're interested in what else you think were doing that is considered spam by the steem community? 

In General.... we want to be on good terms with all of the steem community. If you will just communicate with us how to best do that, that would be great! Please, consider writing a guide on standard community protocols and make that guide available to everyone so new people coming into steem don't have to learn "The hard way" by having all this emotional reactions/downvotes sent their way.

@berniesanders @inquiringtimes @surfermarly @fulltimegeek @sneak @noisy and the rest of steem.

We love you! We're sorry if our tactics have hurt you, offended you, pissed you off or created other negative reactions. 

We don't mean to abuse upvote bots or spam steem. Were the new kid on the block trying to figure out how it all works. Based on what seems to be popular consensus we have decided to stop using up-vote bots the way we have. 

We want to engage with you and all of steem in a good way. By adding valueable content and inspiring dialogue. In the future, please be kind with us if we seem to be overstepping any invisible rules (like using up-vote bots too much).

![SAME COMMENT 42 TIMES.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmddvFjDadusfgi6Ugcj4Kb1PqGYFzGzSNJyYm9AsG3WTf/SAME%20COMMENT%2042%20TIMES.png)


1- The same comment 42 TIMES IN A ROW. Changing only the name of who it is addressed to. Commented to Steemian's blogs, without a genuine comment or concern for original topic matter.

![spam comment in question.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNkPAv2jcwEpNUE6syc8JDb2fvQWfgpnJD3GC6ttxfNS9/spam%20comment%20in%20question.png)

>"Were the new kid on the block trying to figure out how it all works."

2- How do you fix something you don't understand? This is the comment in question.

![which one is it.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTg3ZbpTc4JrEn9YEqmGEMAq5ZqzJZn6T3bNyaKbNupCU/which%20one%20is%20it.png)

3- DID YOU KNOW... That Earthnation DOUBLED their "following" in two weeks? 20 Million people.

![this is NOT you.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmV1Jxvc3cdhpio4kppTTTDD2r45hbfuS9U4EcWxnztJba/this%20is%20NOT%20you.png)

4- On top of Facebook, Weebly, their original site linked below, they rebranded! But New Earth Nation is NOT them, only earth nation. BUT! They made a community on this site, where anyone can make a group. Like their name? This is the list of who they are trying to "partner" with.

Not them.

https://newearthnation.org/

This is them.

http://tribeofawakeningsovereignty.com/manifesto/action-plan/

![want to partner.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTuG2kgweZCBZfzzisBNyMP1UVXam8Pi4ynGEWBR2TwYt/want%20to%20partner.png)

5- Why so secret? Earth nation wants to reach out privately to anyone they think has authority to become partners in their plan. Vote for Vote, Follow for Follow dear. Steemit is decentralized, nobody has supreme ruling over others you know? 

>"Accounts that consistently either like their own content, and/or continuously like the content of the same accounts, and/or continuously like the content of accounts that have been associated as “bots” will lose influence every week."

Stop people from voting the same authors? GOLD.

![DQmaD4z4mfxRwNHbuyTjkb73t4N1W7etZZxWXnda8QpGVKb_1680x8400.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUysZf4GDab2gpYyRhTb4qKiXg7cJm5gpNwPbf9Cb4MGS/DQmaD4z4mfxRwNHbuyTjkb73t4N1W7etZZxWXnda8QpGVKb_1680x8400.png)

6- Screencap I have taken of the original article for written here:

https://asc.ai/2017/09/06/return-to-love/

Then a few months later copy/pasted here word for word:

https://steemit.com/love/@earthnation/what-is-love

Don't forget to buy all the upgoats for it! Only one article, nobody will notice! The others did check out, so why would people check all the articles?

![how come no cite.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNzNykhBcBRF3tVaRNmUwuj3jQhFbsabSpNoZkXimTtsJ/how%20come%20no%20cite.png)

7- Citing articles is important, but there is no love for the original photographers or artists, whatsoever.

![no cite 2.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVD4qmZHSdxQQwV4U8v3DAwrh8AE8u9Tcv4ZVv4CMq8vz/no%20cite%202.png)

DID YOU KNOW? That you can check to see if an image is original or not?

https://www.tineye.com/

![no cite 3.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQnFnyrFo5jyhAaLBW2SgM1hVN9Mdk1TR1XwqtXAi5bEN/no%20cite%203.png)

Surely, no one will check this out, and realize that we didn't credit anyone for these.

![no cite 4.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdrGCLgxF8TLk4Yfa73NN6DMA8tBLRfwkpqKGYCrAQJf7/no%20cite%204.png)

We used to cite, but it's not important for images anymore. Everyone forgot.

![no cite 5.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRFCGbXGT7Dcdwu9hTV6zSfZtZevFA1BJYcbWVvCYwniS/no%20cite%205.png)

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>"There is no guide to steem. No list of steem community protocols we've been able to find."

If you actually use the site, and browse for a little while, you will find many guides to help new people on Steemit. They are everywhere. This is one of my favorite ones, please enjoy c:

https://steemit.com/welcome/@inquiringtimes/333-welcome-to-steemit-333

8- DID YOU KNOW? That we can freely see all of everyone's interactions with each other on Steemit? True transparency! So, we know that you only vote and comment those who support your agenda. You don't care about any other people and their own projects,  but yourselves and what you are trying to achieve. 

https://steemd.com/@earthnation

Why should we care about you?

What in the actual Christopher Columbus are you guys trying to pull? 

9- The "invisible rules" you may be concerned about is called "etiquette", and "culture", you should look up what those words mean. You don't just go to another place, and try to take over. You are not the solution to everyone's problems, especially if you don't even know what they are.

All you had to do was apologize, and try to fix your own problems instead of trying to justify every single thing you do, people are people. 

We don't need you guys to "help us grow Steemit", actually- I don't think we need you guys at all.