Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
I personally believe upvoting bots are a great addition to the Steemit ecosystem since it provides a net benefit to everyone involved when used properly, but the amount of abuse I see is certainly growing. Crap like this gives critics ammo to bring the entire "upvote economy" down.
Just one of many examples:
@amat isn't the only one doing this, to be sure, but when you do it in @randowhale's own threads, you draw a lot of attention to yourself.
A simple change would be to only allow @randowhale and other voting bots to work on top-level posts. Some people will abuse it with top-level posts, to be sure, but it's far more visible, and if we combine it with a separate downvoting pool, it will at least reduce the amount of abuse that poor @randowhale gets.
When you vote up your terrible comments like this, you're damaging your own reputation, the ecosystem, the reward pool, the voting pool for these bots.
Stop being such a jackass, please.
I know I'm not the first to point out this problem but the more people that say something, the more likely it is that something will be done about it.
Hahaha this makes me really laugh. How does a person think they can do something like this and not get caught? :D
Followed! Talk soon.
Yup, it's pretty pathetic, hopefully this summons the downvote brigade on them.
Thanks for dropping by! :-)
It's the responsibility of the community to flag these people. Limiting the bots to top-level posts would make things hard for honest minnows. What we really need is a vigilant community.
People like that just destroy the platform. God they are annoying and selfish...
Yeah. It's not a "cultural thing" either like I sometimes hear. They know they're being rude, selfish, and unethical, otherwise they wouldn't be hiding it in an old thread.
More utter abuse from @amat...
https://steemit.com/tes/@jamilah/5qxkbm-tes
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