Question for you (and @markymark and everyone doing the hard work of trying to make the free downvotes effective):
I have never before used a bidbot. But because of the new curve, it seems like I should make sure that all my posts are at 20 steem at the moment of payout, so I should use a bot to bring it up to that level?
Would this be abuse? Would this mean I'd expect a downvote from you? Or is this an acceptable behavior in the new economy? (note, I think you know me and that my posts aren't spam... but I've just never attracted the whale followers that provide that value, which didn't matter to me before, but now since the curve means that my voters shouldn't vote for me because their votes would be worth less than their potential, I feel like I should at least bring them back to realizing the full value of their votes.)
To me as an abuse fighter, I want to see original content and not something stolen. The more the better, but I don't do as much reward disagreement as I do spam, scam, plagiarism, and so on.
20 Steem is roughly $3, unless you put no effort into something I doubt you have a high risk. There are much bigger targets.
Unfortunately, I do believe the curve encourages more bid bot usage initially. In time I hope people who deserve it get rewarded more. Over time the 16-20 Steem level will move as well. It will take time for everything to settle and then behavior change, then settle again to that new behavior.
I've seen a few examples of reward-pool-abuse meanwhile, didn't bother much tho in the past. I see the possibility of a flag war doing more harm than good. Those that will be targeted could also group together and make things really ugly. Am I wrong?
Anything is possible to be honest.
Ty!
It's up to each person to judge if your post deserves the rewards and paid votes can still be seen as abuse unless the post is valuable to them. You can still make something and rewards may not be so bad if they are freed up by people flagging over-promoted junk. That's already happening on trending.
That's not what I'm getting form this post. If you post a photo and bot it up $100 it's going to get destroyed. If you post a quality article or content of some sort and give it a boost to $10 to hit the curve you should be fine. In my opinion.
Well, I mean, I'd like us to do away with bots entirely, but the economics of things are all topsy turvy regardless, so I'm asking to see if your opinion is shared by @theycallmedan and @themarkymark and the other powerful folks. I don't like abuse, and definitely never want to engage in abuse, but there are many different perspectives on abusive behavior, and I'd like my actions to fit no one's perspectives even accidentally. I got lambasted about freewrites 2 years ago before we became a big community, and I'm glad I stood up for our right to publish those on Steem, but I'm not willing to stand up for anyone's right to use bidbots since I'd rather they all go away entirely anyways. But if it's just "this is where we are, anyways" then I might as well accept them as the new necessary norm. It's very sad to watch my peers value disappear to the new curve and to know that it is actively wrong for them to vote on my posts because they're going to get less value than if they upvote a whale.