Will Steemit get like the stock markets where ping time makes a difference to how efficiently you can trade/curate? Are these bots useful to the Steemit community or just to their owners? I doubt they make any quality judgements.
I guess it's a free market, but I'd like to see quality rewarded rather than bots and human curators just trying to make money. Even when they reach 'the bottom' someone will find other ways to make money.
Anyway, this is interesting stuff. Cheers
BTW hope you don't mind me saying that you need to watch how you use apostrophes and the old your/you're problem. I tend to notice these issues, but I make mistakes too.
@steevc I think you make some good points.
I don't believe that we will get as far as 'ping time' impacting curation. I think that the sliding 30min window will simply push curators down another avenue before we get anywhere near that point.
Bot's do serve a purpose. They are currently indexing tools, and also, moving into the future, the more intelligent they get, the more service they will provide to Steemit. Certainly though, some bot's/many bots add no value whatsoever here.
I don't mind you saying that at all. I apologise, gramma is not my forte. I will try my best to improve, however you will likely see these mistakes often from myself..
I recommended this to @smooth below, but you also may be interested in this post :)
Human vs. Bot Curators - Introducing Human Competition into the Equation - Allow Whales to Delegate Curation Power to Dolphins and Minnows