Well, here's a vote and a comment from a real human.
I don't have anything against bots, as long as they are the result of reasonably intelligent human input. That is, someone (and I know this applies to quite a few "someones" on my typical upvote list) too the time to manually get to know my content well enough to create bot parameters for me. Nifty. Cool.
I feel less enthusiastic about the "0.02% upvote" that often show up... that feels more like a 'feel good vote" that has nothing to do with my content. I could have posted a picture of pocket lint, and it gets the same reward as my posting War & Peace.
Whereas I appreciate the use of bots-- from a functional perspective-- I prefer to do my curation manually. Maybe it's just because I'm an old fart... and I believe that PEOPLE create communities... bots, code and automation do not.
Which-- I suppose-- tells me something about what seven months on Steemit has taught me: I like the interaction; the engagement.
Thankfully... we can perhaps all get what we want from Steemit, and still help the community grow and prosper.
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