So recently I have been experiencing a feeling of burning out, caused by stress and being overworked and tired.
A feeling I know all too well. In addition to the work I do for this platform, I work a demanding full time job in IT so it takes it's toll.
Although, I greatly appreciate your approach and heart for communities, @crypto.piotr. At least a couple names on your list are frequent and / or excessive vote buyers which I find antithetical to community.
If they really cared about growth of community on the platform, maybe they should opt our of appropriating the reward pool to themselves by buying votes. Maybe then creators that stand by their work and the quality thereof will be rewarded via proof-of-brain, one of the most appealing things about this platform if it would actually work (and people were more honest).
It's great that the users are delegating to users. I guess in a sense it's giving something back for undermining proof-of-brain with proof-of-wallet but it doesn't take away from what they did in the first place. My position is that bid bots and circle-jerking auto-voters are the bane of this platform.
While i really understand you and we already met in a comments section of healthiswealth if you remember, but still bid bots and promobots are part of this ecosystem.
Just some people should know the limits when they use them. ( this is just my opinion )
Or i will be also fine with it if we ban them. I mean the bots. But i think most of the bots are running by big stake holders.
Even me i am useing, because nowdays you cant get attention if you dont promote your post😔 I will be more happy without them but for sure we will lose many accounts and the vallue of the steem also.
The reason is simple. The people are lazy. They are lazy to read and vote.
Easier is to sell they votes. Also most of the accounts are from third world country where the steem have bigger vallue in every day life so they straight withdraw it if they have a small amount.
So example i try to dont judge people who are useing bots or promotion service. I read they post and after i judge😊
By the way i checked the steemflagreward as you recomend it and they are good. As soon as i have more time and i can make my account stronger i think i will join them because looks like they are effective😉
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Dear @gabbynhice
It's not that. Look at it from different angle. Time = resource. And if you want people read your publications then you're asking them to spent their limited resources (time).
Somehow it's your job to ensure that they will think that it's worth it. And this is not easy.
Cheers
Piotr
This is a quiet sensitive topic. In some way you are right. In some way not. It depend just from which side you look at the topic.
I can also share some experience and i can prove what i wrote but that will be a crazy topic and for sure i will hurt many people. And as we talk about it before sometimes the block chain maybe is not the best place to be honest.
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Dear @anthonyadavisii
Please accept my apology for such a late reply. I needed those few days off from steemit :)
What do you do related to IT? Do you mind sharing?
The way I see delegating is more of a way of connecting between people. Connection build on selfless support of one person towards someone who is either new or cannot buy STEEM. It gives people impression that someone out there cares about them. And that's how I'm trying to bond people here. Building some small emotional "bridges".
Are you very against bots?
Yours
Piotr
I've pretty much said that vote-bots are our enemy from the time they were first introduced.