Curie isnt a bid bot alternative. No one ever said that. Curie has its place in the ecosystem and does its job amazingly well.
Curie is just the first step on your steem journey.
But the impact of bots is quite clear. You call bid bots sustainable income, what i call it is short term gain/long term implosion of the steem based plaforms.
Consider if all large chunks of SP are delegated to bots. Atm its close to 50% and then you have the SP held by steemit.inc and the devs.
What happens?
Almost everything is locked up in bot delegation, minnows have nowhere to get an upvote from since most whales delegated their SP, they cant pay for bots because they have no liquid SBD, they wont invest because its stupid to pay your own money just to get on a ever growing max buy-in top trending spot.
Outside investors wont come here because what they see at first glance is literal, "put it in a bag and throw it off a cliff", mediocre to garbage content.
What youre left with is dtube that upvotes literal spam with a curation system that doesnt have any kind of rule or reason behind it, except rewarding those that can make the most of the same in the shortest amount of time. And im talking 30-40 low effort videos per week.
Once Ned takes away their delegation what are you left with?
A dead platform with content that no one watches or reads with trash payed for made most visible.
Thats what bots lead to.
Sure they have some surface level use, but looking deeper and long term at it they are a cancer to the steem blockchain. A cancer in every meaning of the word that will slowly but surely kill steem.
I feel like I'm speaking spanish here. I disagree with your assumptions. However, if Curie had a sustainable solution then none of us would need to have this discussion. I will use bid bots to pay my people until there is another alternative. We all im encourage each other and interact so there is zero chance of it becoming a place without discussion or interaction.
We really need to see analysis for whale and dolphins upvotes and self votes. Because the portion of bidbots rewards were not that high to me.
Steem is not going to be killed by bidbots! Why are people making these assumptions? If it was??? Solve the problem. If not? You are barking up the wrong tree.
I would really like to see some data from your assumptions because what you are saying is not true at all.
I just explained it to you. The only reason i can pay for bots is because i earn rewards from those that have the SP to reward me. Once all SP is locked up in delegations you have to pay for it. With what exactly will you pay for it?.....
And on your Curie offering a solution.
Its not on Curie to fix the system. We are all speaking from an individuals perspective.
Curie has its role as support, a motivator and it does its job well.
What youre saying is: well if Curie cant fix it (as if Carl is Curie) ill just continue cutting the branch on which we all sit.
Curie cant be the doctor, the mechanic, the firefighter, the policeman, etc.
Which is why we havr role allocation.
You wouldnt say that steemcleaners need to fix the problems listed, would you?
Anyone who is complaining about bidbots without fighting for a solution is a person that I will tell to fix it. I tried for months to push whales paying delegations. Apparently I failed but at least I tried. My new solution is to use bidbots until I am financially secure enough to support my team on my own.
I said data. I didn't ask for an explanation.
You are making assumptions. The irony is!?! This post is asking for delegations!! Put down the koolaid and do some research. I am a curie curator just like you. Actually ive been a curator longer than you. I am not your enemy.
Your longevity as a curator doesnt mean much really. Youre just making an argument from authority.
Im saying bid bots are cancer. And its really not their fault. They have a use. But automation of monetary distribution will kill steem.
Youre participating in that for your own personal gain which is ok and your right, but at least acknowledge that your actions are to detriment to the platform.
I use bots as well, like i used it yesterday to take my curie promotion post to trending, not once did i use it to promote what i primarily do on this platform. That is for the commmunity to decide if i deserve to be on trending.
But i acknowledge that im participating in the s..t culture that is ruining steem. But youre just defending your position and defending the clear sickness because youre participating in iT and attacking Curie of all things. What?
You have a need to shut up those that attack bid bots. Why?
I cant fix the human trafficking problem but i can talk about it.