Well, one of the first problems with the bots is that, as a new user, you can't really use them. you need to be here a bit to even begin to understand their use and then you don't have any spare SBD to buy them. So they put new users at an even bigger disadvantage.
I've been here a couple of months and have used a bot, paying 1 SBD, for a guaranteed return. I don't feel I understand enough to use the ones you see in steembottracker. I don't understand minnow booster to althogh that seems to be the one recommended for newbies.
The whole situation with the trending and hot posts make a complete nonsense of those feeds in my opinion. It's simply not a fair contest. Only a small minority can pay enough to appear in those feeds so how can that really represent what's trending or hot.
I've heard arguments for both sides and can see the sense in both but overall I would say the bots just put new comers at an even bigger disadvantage than they already have.
Throw renting delegation into the mix and it gets even more unequal.
The world is unequal. Aside from the issue, if you took bots/delegations out, richer folks still have an advantage over poorer ones. So? welcome to Earth?
I have however, seen penniless nigerians come here, with broken english, poor posts and nothing going for them, and build empires, becoming locally wealthy even in their region.
They ignored the noise, didnt whine about "fairness" on earth and got to work, networking, building relationships and continuously improving their craft.
Hey BIG NEWS! This is a JOB! It's WORK! and if you work hard enough? You can prevail!
It's been proven over and over and over and over again.
The "disadvantage" is false.
I am working hard @sircork. I am networking. I am building relationships. I am not whining.
We were asked for an opinion and I gave one. Maybe the "disadvantage" is false. I am expressing what it looks like to me after my short time here. I am not saying it is fact. As I said, I am expressing an opinion as asked for.
Roger that, and I counterpointed. No mal-intent intended.
As a leader in many communities and a witness who has been here a long time, I did knee jerk alittle to the countless thousands of times Ive heard this argument from folks who expected this to be an ATM machine and not the experience of opening the 1000000000th pizza restaurant in NYC, for example, where you have to bust your ass to sell a slice, and most will fail in a year or less, while some will go on to franchise for billions.
It's the real world here, and it works like that. With an anarcho-capitalist spin.
You have to play, to win, and you have to play hard.
But even the Bad News Bears got a movie and beat the champs.
😁 Well hats off to you for being willing to say "I did knee jerk a little". That's encouraging.
I didn't expect it to be an ATM machine here but I did expect the wealth to be more evenly distributed. I'm not making a judgement about that particularly but it was sort of the way it was sold to me. My experience so far is that it's no different here than it is in the world in general, which is probably your point.
It's not stopping me for working hard and giving it a go. I'm just having to adjust my view of what goes on here and that takes time and first hand experience.
:)
Here's to your journey to the top being scenic!
Thank you kind sir. I'll drink to that! 🍹