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I was waiting to upvote this very comment from someone.

So quitting steemit ? And going for some other crypt ?

am gonna miss you rando... J. J. Rando ^ . ^

why are you closing down :(

Good one! lol :)

I don't know how anyone else could've commented after this, but I will try anyway. You deserve all of the fish, dude haha!

this is sad, randowhale changed STEEM and inspired many future projects

Thank you, friend. It was a fun project!

can we know why?

Farewell Rando! We can't stop here, this is bat country.

Deletes RandoAwake From Chrome Extensions My Queen will sleep through the night now.

I liked that sound, so rando!

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Sad day. I loved this service! Thanks for all you did @randowhale. you were a great boost for a lot of people and I am sure will be missed. Best of luck in the ocean of "The Real World"

Thanks for taking the lead the supporting folks here on Steemit. You were the big net that helped others to bring in good fish. You are appreciated and will be missed. Enjoy yourself.

Do you think a battle against vote-buying bots and services may be just over the horizon?

Doubtful, most of those with enough SP to do anything won't bother.

I wonder what the tipping point is between the opportunity cost of down voting and the perceived investment value loss of the platform rewarding content many in the outside world don't care about. Ultimately, this early in the economic calculus of things, I think external cryptocurrency market forces impact the token value far more than anything else we're all doing here (bot voting, self-voting, crap-content voting, etc). I do think equilibriums will be found and stress-tested over time though.

@lukestokes its already upon us dude

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OMG, one of the sadest moments in Doctor History!
That and losing the Ponds.

Well, I am afraid that I remain a bit of a cynic .. but hope that all upvote bots follow this example. We will see a more ethic and fair steemit community. Today was the very last day of my life that I send money to one of this bots..

Wow, you are the first comment that says exactly what I was thinking and you're way too far down the list for my liking. Let's see what I can do about that :-)

Thank you so much! I believed my words and practiced it.. never more used bots from that day..