I just started playing with minnowbooster, by sending steam power along with a memo to the post to upvote. Now, here is the thing, I was wondering how some posts recieved so many upvotes yet so few views. I see posts regularly being upvoted in the $100s with inconsistant views to upvote. Not sure what to make of it.
a brave little team of entrepreneurs in reference to an arise bank and bitshares partnership which recieved a lot of negative feedback, so much so that Stan took to his overalls and rocking chair to dispeal the perception of mobster associated with his godfather of bitshares moniker.If there is a reward pool being drained by bot use then it would seem that does little to incentivize good content and the number of competitions and other well disguised posts creaming the rewards will increase and then there is as you highlight the Trevon James and Craig Wrights of the world profiting from the system. Which might be fine from the point of view of @Stan Larimer who disappeard in a puff of smoke yesterday appauled with the community for exposing in his words
Drama aside, the answer is in the design of the system and how it combats gamification, not an easy problem to solve. To start one has to understand the Steemit / Steem decentralized model @ned clearly describes it as
"Steemit is a centralized website sitting atop a decentralized protocol—that's steem"
from here it gets a lot more complicated.
That's because the vote bots don't even read or look at the content, and that is my issue with them. How could they up-vote something, which in turn gives it credit and recognition as being a quality piece of content, when they haven't even fucking read it?
Yes, that is it, bots can't even read, as dumb as that sounds it does enable us to spot posts that are heavily bot up-voted.
Keeping in mind that there are possibly also non public bots being used by whale groups financing themselves with cleaverly disguised posts as mention.
Without a doubt, hence the reason why the rich keep getting richer on here, with little to no effort whatsoever.
There's certainly some weird goings on, here's a screen capture from an officialfuzzy competition. Notice the views 52 and votes 136 he runs very frequent community challenge comps to produce art work, videos, tweets anything... all in the spirit of community building, prizes are always bts tokens, I've never seen steem offered, participated in a few of them myself and found him making some strong critisims of @ned and steemit on Telegram chat yesterday.
That's what bot action looks like my friend... pretty sad ain't it?
Yep, It looks very much like the ratio of votes is screwed by bots. curators are likely not being rewarded for their content least not on the level they could in the absense of bots.
I 100% agree, but I do not see the bots going away anytime soon, but hopefully as more real people join... they will be able to drowned out the bots.