RE: Steemit: A Social Platform Or A Bot Gaming System?

[isnochys]

As a witness and bots owner I can just say it's neither:)
In its current form there is no social component involved to interact on a deeper basis, for that we still need other platforms. Currently it is more an early stage blogging platform without the audience. No one is reading anything, most posts are thrown and written into the storm. Just a lucky few get some kind of readership bring it already with them. Most here want to Farm. And for that you need bots and steemcleaners to cut out the bad ones. And dear god, there are bad ones. My bots are a honeypot for them. That's why I introduced a spam tax. Or farm toll. You can do it, but you have to pay a price.

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[davemccoy]

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I wish more witnesses and bot owners would weigh in. I don't fully comprehend your answer because I don't understand what you mean by "farm"... Can you explain?

Most here want to Farm. And for that you need bots and steemcleaners to cut out the bad ones. And dear god, there are bad ones. My bots are a honeypot for them. That's why I introduced a spam tax. Or farm toll. You can do it, but you have to pay a price.

I also would like to ask you what you think about my proposal to eliminate the misleading practice of saying "congratulations you received an upvote blah blah blah" and instead replacing it with the actual return based on an actual price of steem? I don't know what bot you own, but to me would stop a lot of people from gambling if they knew what they were losing.

The second step that should be taken is to put the ACTUAL facts in the bot replies. Instead of telling people "congratulations you were just upvoted x%" which seems really good to many people but is useless and misleading, you should instead say "you received an upvote and the loss (or gain) to you at the current steem price of $y was x%". Since 15 of the top 20 witnesses also own bots, then this small step of truth and honesty will show that you care about the "consumer" and that you are interested in more than your own profits. The elimination of this misleading information will lead many to stop using the bots, causing a drop in demand, thus many of the bad bots will go away

Thank you for responding. I respect anyone that takes the time to give their point of view (even if I don't agree with it).