This is a very general discussion and here are my own opinions. You see about using voting bots, so many people out there just don’t get the concept cause if they do, everyone will generally accept voting bots as the most essential things on the platform
Paid content promotion services create real utility and value for the STEEM token
The concept of promotion on steemit should be better understood , any business, projects , ideas , contents that actually wants more exposure even outside steemit is being promoted so I don’t see why promotion on steemit should be a taboo
The problems that exist are not caused by paid content promotion services, nor would they be solved if paid content promotion services did not exist
Paid promotion to me hasn’t caused any problems and I don’t think removing them will actually change anything.
It’s highly preferable to have these services run by top witnesses and other well known and respected members of the Steem community who will run them responsibly and have the best interests of the platform at heart.
I believe this is a decentralized system, everyone is trusted cause nothing is actually hidden but whoever runs voting bots. I believe voting bots is the number one thing for steem power investors and why should this be taken away.
Thanks for this deep discussion
Great points. But steem also gives the promise of a space without advertising. Where content is what is most important.
But you are right ,advertising brings money into the blockchain and that makes steem valuable.
Does it? Where does it ever say that it is supposed to be a space without advertising? As Ned said in the video it is "the world's advertising network". In my opinion the value of STEEM is all about advertising. The difference between Steem and traditional sites is where the value derived from that advertising goes. On traditional sites it goes to the companies that own the site, and on Steem it goes to the holders of the tokens and the content publishers on the platform.
Steem didn't make the promise in that way. It was that I saw a place that was about the people not the corporation. "Promising".