"The fact our company stay invested with STEEM is because of all the crap content around here, which in investor terms are great because that means there is room to grow, which is awesome for us."
But cant you see this is a bad thing for the growth of the platform? I mean with that comment you acknowledge that your company provides a service that goes against the core ideas behind the platform you are working on.
Are you not saying: "Yes, please give us more crap content, its good for business".
- When there is a human factor involved in reward distribution you have creators actively working to improve their content to attract rewards, bringing up the value of the platform.
- When you can get to trending with bots by doing the bare minimum of not getting blacklisted (super easy if i might add) then there is absolutely no incentive to improve anything you do.
All of that goes completely against the interest of the platform and in the long term against the interest of you as someone with a large stake here.
Bots automate the reward distribution completely remove the human factor and turn Steemit from a social media website to a massive ad banner.
What happens if bot SP delegation reaches 80%, 90%, 95%?
Whos going to be left here? No new users will come here once they realize that everything with any kind of rewards is bought and payed for. Do you really believe that users will buy SBD/STEEM to pay for upvotes, gambling that the price of Steem will rise so that they can earn a bit? No investors or marketers will come here because they will see that they have no one to advertise to.
What you are left with is people blogging for no one, blogging for no rewards, and spammers in the comment section that dont realize writing:
"oh nice very good post, many lucks family friends".... gains them absolutely nothing.
The bot discussion was never about "reward pool rape". It was about what the future holds if this goes on.
"You were BORN TO STAND OUT" Thats a clever pitch. People are suckers for motivational quotes. ;)
The fact is, bots take away the choice of the community to decide what are the people of value, who are those that bring the most value to all of us. Give bots more SP and there will be absolutely no way to determine that.
Care or care not, im just speaking my mind...