What an in depth article. I too disagree with the prevalence of bid bots in the platform. It’s going to eventually destroy the platform, there will be hardly any decent content. I’ve already stopped bothering to go to the trending page for over a month. The catalyst for me was some guy promoted a post about eating fast food in a super expensive car. It was #1 on trending, seriously?! I said no more after that, that’s not the content that should be at the top of trending.
I found your post via truffle pig, the only valuable bot I’ve seen on the platform thus far.
The trending page is in a very bad place right now. I find it very strange that the whales delegate to bots and therefore allow awful posts to gain the most exposure which will destroy the reputation of the platform and their own wealth. What is the point of collecting as much Steem as possible if it is not worth anything?
Truffle pig is quite a useful bot. I am becoming a regular choice.
Agreed. I like this platform but not everyone feels the way I do and I’ve noticed there’s a lot of negative fluctuations in the price of Steem. I’ve been on the crest of 20$ in account value and I cross it for a couple hours and it goes down. There are multiple forces involved but those with lots of holdings on this platform aren’t helping it mature very much.