Hi beanz, good open discussion on the topic. I think that autovoting can be done better with rules and interfaces that keep the user engages and in control of the votes. I have been building an app for steemit that does just this, and hope to get a couple of my beta testers on it and released within days. It also requires your "vote" as a service fee, but it offers much more to the user, a new user interface, new views and easiler ways to filter and manage what posts you care about and IF you want to auto vote them up. It is also a web app only, NO SERVICE so it only runs when you want it to run in your browser. I think its a different offering but very interested in how to "earn" something from it with people's votes as well, since it has been hundreds of hours to develop it for the community. I think that deserves some level of payment, doesn't it, so doesn't steemvoter as well?
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With so many services and games coming up that require your vote to use, I'm beginning to see this as unsustainable. Those who don't use a service and see the post as over-valued will simply down-vote the post. I think people should start charging users for using services and playing games so that the reward pool can be used to benefit the entire community, not just those who participate in a game or service.
I love the sound of the app you're developing though and would be happy to pay for it rather than drain the reward pool (of money that just doesn't belong to me)
Yes. You deserve payment to run your business. Curie deserves payment to run their business. Steemsports deserves payment to run their business.
But the payment shouldnt come out of the reward pool, because eventually, when there is nothing to vote on except you guys fuding your businesses, no one is going to have any use for your business.
ya, I think the steem opportunity where people pay with votes is certainly an easy entry point for a business, but I do like your point, that it can be paid for from outside money, which would then feed more into the steem eco systems really. I'll likely look at a payment option to pay for my app as an alternative and promote, or some other way to "invest in steem" to use my app, as I truly want it to help grow the community, not damage the rewards system in any way.