I don’t mind it when people use upvote services to get to the trending page. In order to buy your way to the top, you need to have some SBD staked in the company already.
The trending page is like Hollywood, that’s where all the people that want to look flashy hang out. And yeah, sometimes they make bigger incomes, but sometimes they are just going into debt to look good (paying more for upvotes than what you get in return).
At the end of the day, the only way to counter spam is to take the time to read your fellow writers’ work, and have genuine conversations.
Being on discord helps too.
Never though about comparing it to Hollywood, but it really suits the Trending page!
Interaction is all that matters, for the moment bots will not be able to replace this!
I don't do Discord, what am I missing? Already spend to much time on Steemit to read, write and comment.
If Steemit was Facebook than discord would be like messenger/Facebook groups.
But discord isn’t connected to steem, it’s just a system we use.
Ok, thx for the explanation!
We do have steemit.chat our version of discord but people have stopped using it :(
Can't even create an account there. But hey I did create a profile at discord. Will take some time to figure out how these things work :)
IIUC you need to use steem.chat instead of steemit.chat now.
it autodirect to the site anywho