Hey!
I'm now two weeks on steem and really put some effort into it.
Steem has a hard learning curve, but I think I mastered it so far!
And my experiences are the following:
I agree, that bots, voting for money aren't going to help.. they make the exact opposite happen.. the opposite of what steem is really aiming for.
Still I do not think, that all bots are hurting the system. Many truly help.
For example resteem bots are an amazing possibility to boost your reach and help you making your qualitative content visible for others.
There are also some bots that resteem for free to help pushing good content of a specific category.
Without them my content would just not be seen.
Also if you forbid buying votes, I don't think it will change anything.
Buying votes just gets more expensive and only people with money can buy them..
I hope you can understand my points and I look forward to an answer! :)
greets from germany
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I agree, not all bots are bad. Lots of automation is great. But, when it automates what should be human interaction, it sucks the life out of the platform. Thanks for your comment.
I think that rewards aren't n^2, is a much bigger problem.
Still didn't fully understand this problem.
I know @felixxx is writing a lot about it, but wouldn't that make posts like this even less rewarding and bring people to buy even higher votes?
Right now there is $2.84 on this with 31 users thinking this is content worth their upvote. You could easily buy $10/20 upvotes. With n² wouldnt that mean this would be worth way more (cant figure out the math right now) without anyone approving with the bought post?
Still think self voting is a bigger problem. At least early self votes that draw lots of % from the curation rewards. And people shouldn't be encouraged to instantly selfvote by having a checkbox right next to the post button.
Ja! The checkbox is a serious problem..
Stimme dir auf jeden Fall zu, bin aber gerade echt nicht in der Verfassung n^2 zu erklären.. :s
Grüße
Yeah, but the problem is, the rewards pool is going into the pockets of people that created nothing, and their behavior is behind closed doors, so the community, which is supposed to police bad behavior, can't even react to it properly. How is it any better for all the biggest rewards to be paid for in advance to someone that doesn't risk anything to earn that money? To me, the problems are equal, but at least with self-voting, we see it, we know who they are and we can flag or comment, or mention them and there will be an awareness of the bad actors.
I have found @steemauto to help me support key steemians that I fallow and wish to support. It could be interpreted as a bot. It uses my steem to upvote both posts and comments. As I have a life outside the website. I am not online all the time and can easily miss the best time to get them on the hot list or the expiration date of the post
That's not what this post is fighting against, though. If you know what the quality of that content is, and you are directing your steem toward it, you are still managing your influence and I applaud that.