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RE: Open Discussion: Fix Trending & Stop Promotion Abuse

in #steem7 years ago

"people that trying to play a "police" role with hunt average steem users
that spending their last money to promote their good content since there is no other way and unfortunately upvote bots are part of the game that we must play in order to succeed on steemit"

This isn't true. The actual problem is that you are convinced that buying votes solves the problem, when it only makes the problem worse.

Stake-weighting, substituting financial holdings for societal virtue, is the underlying mechanism that degrades Steemit such that people turn to votebots to gain attention to their ideas. By doing so they're surrendering to the power of money to command influence, and this makes the problem worse.

Targeting posts that gain most of their rewards from botvotes directly attacks this exacerbation of the underlying problem, so it's good. It just doesn't go far enough in directing it's impact to the substitution of money for virtue.

Some people will whore out their mothers for money. Attacking the financial rewards they get when they do that may discourage them from whoring out their mothers, but it won't teach them to value their mothers for more than the money they can get for popping their pussies.

This is exactly the degradation that results from substituting money for virtue, if the extreme end of the scale.

The substitution of money for virtue is what hurts the average Steemian, not @heimindanger's flags. @heimindanger is just swatting their hands away from the far more harmful hot stove they are trying to stick their hands into.

Substituting botvotes for actual curation is like offering people who need gloves hot stoves instead. If you don't want to get harmed, don't stick your hand in there. Find actual gloves to use. Seek actual societal virtues as the rewards you care about, rather than being fooled by greedy profiteers that financial rewards are the point of society.

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