Yeah would hope that bot werent created with a more malicious intent. I guess its hard t create something with good intentions and predict they are going to be used they they are now!
I LOVE the idea of limiting the bot use to a couple of times a week (Maybe there should be a value aswell on how much you can spend per week on bots). This owuld make for a much more even and fair playing field and would be alot more encouraging for minnows. Surely this would be easy enough to implement. The hard part is convincing people it is a good idea.
I wrote an article with my ideas just the other day, where I suggest they change the layout of Steemit to include a 'organic' trending page:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@conradt/make-the-trending-page-great-again-organic-trending
Yea I dont name names on here but it does often seem the same people who post average quality (at best!) and get massive rewards. This is just taking advantage of the system for me, and isnt really helping with the long term growth of Steemit! Im sure some of these same people upvote their own comments to further boost their account - not cool!
Yeah I agree about the witnesses, we need people working full time to monitor the quality of posts on here - but wasnt that the idea of everyone working on 'quality control' by being offered curation rewards and thus having incentive to look for and upvote quality content? Have we moved away from the core design of Steem in that respect?
I think, as many minnows power up across the board, that we are moving towards the core design of Steemit as voting power gets more spread out among the Steemit masses.
Pareto's law states that there will always be higher concentrations of power in a few amongst the many; that's just how the Universe is.
You want to know about inequality?
Just 3 individuals, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates; collectively are worth 60% of ALL the wealth in the United States.
Having more witnesses being paid in Steem to spend 8 hours a day, covering Steemit 24 hours a day, watching for awesome posts and giving THOSE posts the $50 upvote would make Steemit more attractive to the uninitiated masses who are new to Steemit.
Give those authors the chance to REALLY show the world how great Steemit is; not an early investor giving themselves a $100 upvote on a picture of a flower.
@hanshotfirst is a great example of true quality. So is @surfermarly, @neilstrauss, and my favorite Steemian, @themadgoat.
(After finding him I spent 2 days reading all of his past posts; too many 'laugh-out-loud' moments in a coffee shop to count 😂).
When the trending page gets fixed, that'll be a good start.
Perhaps a witness-reviewed trending page that people can go to in order to find quality?
The Steemit team is doing great, I have no doubt they'll do even better when we, the people of Steemit, offer constructive feedback on HOW to make it better.
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