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RE: Manual Curation vs Automatic Curation

in #curation7 years ago

This is a a concern, for I've seen single sentence posts at $30 simply because of auto-voting. That's bad. If someone has people auto voting them like that, why would they care about the quality of their posts?

I have not used any automated services and probably never will. Even going through new user intro posts is done manually. Yes, it takes time, but I want to find quality new users to support. A robot or service cannot do that for me.

There's also a problem where people will reply quickly to a new post, and then their reply gets a ton of upvotes from bots. They are abusing the system in other words. When you ask the person who replied where all the instant upvotes to their reply came from, they feign ignorance too.

If I have a decent reply to a trending post, I'll ask my friends to support me with upvotes. I'm not timing my replies though, and I don't reply to game the system or gain profit. My reply is to further the discussion or add something valuable to the author's post.

Quality replies to trending posts is a great way to get more high quality followers. I never want to automate that process though or abuse the payout system to do it however. I'll stick to manual and personal replies in all cases to genuinely welcome new people and genuinely add to a discussion.

That will improve our population of Steemians over time instead of making it worse through auto voting.

Thanks for posting about this topic. It is always a worthy one to discuss!