If I am allowed to speak truth, I will definitely say that Steem is not doing anything better than traditional social media platforms. It has rather become a tool of earning for many. This virtual world Is one of the most unequal society where automatic voting, use of bots, self voting and the worst herd mentality prevail.
Most of the people upvotes those who don't reply because they don't even see the content of a post. When They see that someone has good reputation score and his posts earn a lot, they began to upvote him with the help of automatic voting tools, in a hope to earn handsome curation reward (which is totally bullshit). These writers of trending posts are well aware of the herd mentality of public, so they don't care for their opinion either.
I am a new user of steem. So I experimented with many things here, including upvoting trending posts to upvoting new but well written posts of minnows, using bid bots to self bots and no bid bots. I found that upvoting a whales post is totally wastage of voting power. Trending posts are seldom good. Bid bots can help a new user but not effective in a long run.
What do you think?
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I agree, the steem voting and rewards system need to be updated if we want new users to stick around.
Not everyone is going to make a fortune, but at the moment, good content doesn't get the reward it deserves.
It's mostly whales and dolphins circle jerking each other
This is very bad.
Yup, something I've noticed early on... :/
I think bidbots are shit for helping steem, certainly against helping to change the quoted part... :/