I am passionate about news, politics, economy, geopolitics . I share articles and videos I find important or interesting . Sometimes I add my comment to the post sometimes I don't . All videos I share link to their authors channels (I do not re upload their videos) . and links to articles are always in my posts .
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All the bot is trying to curve is you winning upvotes from people that mistakenly might think you are the author of the news or the video.
That would be ethically questionable. Imagine I spend hours working on a video, a lot of money on gear. And then, some account on STEEM copy pastes it onto his profile and makes money off my work.
Hardly seems ethical. - So, the bot is just letting people know.
Hey, don't vote for this, it's not its content, find the original author and reward that person.
Well, most people think that it's ok to embed a youtube video on here. Granted enough work has gone into the post to add enough value to warrant any compensation.
Let me put it this way, if the work took less than 2 minutes, then its worth less than two minutes money wise. too...
The research you speak of could be youtube's algorithm spitting out things that it knows you would like anyways. Who is doing the work? It's not like you walked into a library and spent hours sorting thru dusty tomes.
There is some work, that we can agree on, but how much is it worth? Not much if anything at all.
People go to youtube to find youtube videos. They don't go to steemit.
They might however enjoy a critique on a movie lets say, a well thought out critique with many compelling points against and for. Well researched background, etc etc...
That could be something valuable on steem.
Maybe...
I see your point, its quite valid. But, it fails to consider the fact that he pays thousands of dollars for hosting these bots (he owns multiple bots and script that do various things, many of them are used by other witnesses like the blacklist api)
So, this practice is a way for him to offset the cost of doing something that nobody pays him for.
So, grant you, you are right, on the surface its sketchy, but if you dig deeper, which i have, it makes sense.
I think the idea, and I have no problem asking this to mark btw... but I think the idea was to make people share original content and care more about the platform.
Now one can argue about the approach, deterrents or incentives or a combination of both.
I tend to be an incentive kind of guy, but that is personal choice and I don't impose my will on others. However, believe it or not (some people don't know) - Mark has a very kind side too... I've seen him upvote a ton of minnow accounts... hundreds, for free... just because they were doing original content.
So also, to say his only activity is harassing people is not fair. And by the way before you think the wrong idea... I'm not kissing ass... if mark makes a mistake I tell him, i have no problem doing that, he is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but he does have good intentions as much as people who get this little bot's messages dont think so.