These folks don't understand the entertainment industry. It's worth billions of dollars. Steemit and everything else that runs on this blockchain now and into the future has the potential to grab on to a massive portion of those billions by allowing creators to be 100% independent. Book authors, podcasts, musicians, bloggers, vloggers, film producers, everything under the sun. Now what investor on the planet wouldn't want a piece of that pie?
Does a busker in the subway tunnel pay people to listen? That's the most basic, entry level form of the entertainment industry. The answer is no and everyone knows that except for these folks who don't understand the entertainment industry and assume the busker will start paying, after hundreds if not thousands of years of never paying. That's how much these folks don't understand what they're doing. If the buskers can't even scrape up a bit of change, nobody else going up the chain will be interested. People are already leaving because these folks selling the votes don't know what they're doing. Does a musician buy the seats and play in front of an empty house? No. So what are they trying to achieve here? Stupidity? Trying to win the Darwin Award? Sure seems like it.
“Does a musician buy the seats and play in front of an empty house? No”
This is exactly what these folks are doin. Steemit has had some big namers in YouTube coming over (&furiouspete123 and many others, first one to come to mind) to join D.tube. This is just a start of the huge wave I believe. Yet some probably look at the trending page and go wow that is neat, then leave. Great bloggers get overshadowed by a meme that used bidbots, a picture of some coffee with very minimal words typed. This is a huge problem for the future of Steemit.
Unfortuntiy when there is $$ involved greed takes over and morals and values get kicked to the curb. It’s all about getting that $$.
Greed? These folks are working so they can make thousands instead of millions. It's not greed. They just don't know what they're doing and those who buy the votes aren't the sharpest tools in the shed either.
The people using the bidbots are trying to get more $$ than they would without them. So it does have some greed behind it. Sharp or not they are still after that $$ so it is greed.
Great analogy. As a musician, producer and artist, this platform has so much potential. I see the bots as a major problem. It doesn't do much for my art if I have to buy all my votes. My goal is not only to make a living making my art, but also to gather larger amounts of people who love my music and art. I feel you 100% as an original content creator on Steemit. I haven't given up yet, but it is certainly discouraging. I'd still rather post here than to facefuck or instagarbage