I can feel your heart pains poured out through this post and believe me you’ve said what aches the mind of so many others . You see the issue of auto upvote has been an experience I witnessed myself . This took me back to when I just joined Steemit, I joined with a friend on the same day and one way or the other which I do not know. He was put on auto upvote, we both make post everyday him making more than 3 everyday because 1. He’s on auto upvote 2. He posts either a selfie or a meme and he earns on it big time. Being humanly I was feeling jealous and discouraged cause all I earn is 3 to 10 cents on post I spend the whole day writing. But it struck me this is me working for my future and I know 60% on steemit started with nothing or any upvote but they are good today. I summoned courage and things went on until the auto upvote stopped someday. It has stopped since then and he’s back to what I faced then . He got to lazy and when he couldn’t deal with 3cents I earn he left the platform.
With all this being said and done , I totally agree with you that manual upvoting is the best. Those that are powering down are just not being observant, lately I was trying to get an account for someone and I saw the payment option. You see it was free before and now there’s option of payment. This is a sign that it could only get better. I agree that people will strive to have steempower in the future but I’m glad I’m part of the platform now and I can only grow with the platform.
One could argue that a payment option is the opposite of a good thing.. say, an argument from the point of view that if the community and service as a whole was working as intended, account creation 'fees' would be non-existent,.. aren't the witnesses making enough money on the crypto side that they can afford to give away accounts free? There are multiple points to argue here.. selfish desires could and should be at the forefront of the conversation.. charging for accounts as applied to a powering down as a cost to run the service, for instance.
Auto upvote becomes like a salary and it breeds entitlement eventually. It will slowly destroy your work ethic. It will make you less observant and be put to sleep more. We humans are wired to live in a tribe and djungle where everday some exciting stuff can go down. That is when we feel the most alive. Not when some zookeeper comes and gives us the food. It breeds learned helplessness.
We like to do work and feel like we have truly earned something. It feels awkward when we know we truly didn't work for the money. Once you become excited about getting 1 cent that's when you know you are not an entitled person anymore. And that is when the universe will start giving you more and more and more...
I totally agree with you my friend . Autoupvotes hinders pure energy radiation, pure content creation from steemians
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