I am on the fence about bidbots myself. I've used them and found them wanting. I use resteemers to cast a wider net. I found bidbots to be less than satisfactory as I have to keep pumping money from outside of Steemit to them in order to make regular use of them.
As to the "shitposts" that are present on Steemit, I only have to be better than them with my writing. In the end, Steemit is about doing what I love to do. I can do that longer than someone can continue to post low quality content and use bidbots to get paid for it.
See, eventually, the novelty will wear off and those kinds of people will get bored. They might even find out eventually, that they wasted their time gaming the system rather than building up a useful skill.
I can see the enthusiasm in your writing because you write about what really matters to you. This is why we write. There is no other reason before that. If we get paid, well, that's a bonus. I don't even do it for the applause. I do it because I love the state of my mind when I write. "Shitposters" are never, ever going to see that joy of writing or creating something that other people can enjoy. For them, the high is in gaming the system. For me, the high is in writing. The former is simply not sustainable.
The programmers of Steemit seem to be aware of this trend and I have faith that they are working out the "beta" bugs. Steemit is still in beta. I also have faith that just writing what I want to write, hanging it up for all to see, and waiting for the response is enough.
You have the writing bug. Write on.
So true! I do love to write. And that is what is keeping me on this platform more than anything else. The biggest issue I have with bid bots is that they are ruining it for new people as well. If I were to come to steemit now I would take one look at the "trending" page and turn and run! I agree, people are spending more time and money on bid bots than they are on their posts and in the end they will realize its not even worth it, but that may take a long time.
Hopefully you are right with steemit seeing this problem and fixing it with the next hardfork or whenever steemit is out of beta. I just hope the platform will continue to grow with all the issues that have been popping up lately. I would hate to put all this effort into a platform that ends up falling apart :/ I'm excited for HF20, hopefully it happens sooner rather than later.
following you cuz I need follow more people who just love to write, screw all the bullshit! :)