wow till now i had no clue about @waphilip existence, maybe due to the bad interface that makes hard the whole searching progress, maybe because i should have spent more time searching i dunno.
What i know though is that all people like interaction. If we follow someone we at least sometime in a week read at least one of their posts and make a great comment. I know it can be hard and not anyone has the same amount of time to "spent" but wouldn't we wanted the same?
i used to (once again when i had a lot of free time) to go over to the introduce tag and search for new actual promising users and not only welcome them but supporting them with guidance and upvotes.
What i noticed was that by that way 8/10 of them remained till now in the platform and 1 of them bought some steem and became a dolphin himself! Not only those people share the same mindset as me, i earned some royal followers as well as these people did the exact same thing i did for them to new users!
It's all a chain. If we chose to give bad experiences and always make a drama out of everything then that's what everyone will do. If we try for the best of the platform and for our community then we gonna be on right path
Interesting thoughts. Yeah, the site needs engagements. I understand AI is cool and all, and I am not opposed to some bots, but I wonder if some have lost touch with the concept that bots don't require a site to send money around