Can we prevent this somehow?
I am invested in Steem for the same reasons you are @exyle and I like the way the system is now.
For me.. the better technique would be to use artificial intelligence like YouTube and Google does to show the best content as opposed to adjusting the rewards and payouts.
That's the UI/UX thing. AI has to have some input, curators give that but curators are those who use SP. Now people would rather sell their SP to bid bots instead of using it themselves for curation, because they obviously want to profit. We want people to profit from activities that are good for the platform.
It might be worth mentioning that I am planning to give 100% of the reward pool from Humanist.xyz to delegators of which I and my family will be delegators.
I am also plannning on possibly giving all earnings earned outside of the reward pool from all of my project to delegators.
If I do this.. and I am successful.. others will follow and SP holders will stop delegating to bidbots and start delegating to actual companies and projects that produce value instead - for a GREATER return.
That is the exact thing that @exyle is waiting for and I was planning to do it first with the help of @buildteam @thecryptodrive and their software Dapp @tokenbb.
P.S. I also own Crowdfunder.xyz @crowdfunder.
Why not launch a #Steemit SMT to fix this so we can have our cake and eat it too with our current Economic System AND a functional @steemit.
Remember.. Steemit is NOT Steem.. they are and SHOULD remain separate and it might not be good to corrupt the Steem ecosystem for the sake of a single Dapp:
TAG: @exyle
It's all about Steem, obviously, not Steemit.
SMTs won't help much if our base economic is broken.
@gtg,
I think this post by @timcliff helped me understand it more. Thank you guys 😀
https://steemit.com/hf21/@timcliff/hardfork-21-steem-proposal-system-sps-economic-improvement-proposal-eip
@gtg,
I just read another post that actually agreed with what I said earlier about SMT's and also with @exyle:
https://steemit.com/busy/@taskmaster4450/is-steem-heading-for-a-new-coke-moment
Do you own a bidbot service @gtg?
If you do it will start earning more after it's change in compensation.
I was hoping that @steemit would really move into thrive mode but this suggestion by witnesses might finally be the last nail in the coffin for #Steem.
@therealwolf and other bidbot operators are slowly killing @steem and @ned @andrarchy and @elipowell @steemitblog are helping.
No. Not only I don't own one, but I'm also not using any.
No. Not only I
Don't own one, but I'm also
Not using any.
- gtg
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
:-D
Thank you @gtg 👍😀👏
Why not just create a separate pool for downvotes without reducing the share for authors?
Downvotes idea is separate from author->curator shift and source for SPS.
Bid-bots won't make more money, due to the 25% downvote-pool.
The people like you who own bidbots or others can just start flag wars and automatically downvote anyone who downvotes their posts!!!!
Would you use a bid-bot that starts flagging people for revenge? I wouldn't.
I am still open minded @therealwolf but I am not sure if even people will downvote.
Thank you for replying to my comment 👍
Why not just create a separate pool for downvotes without reducing the share for authors?