Ahh, I see, but bots in the long run will only serve to drain the rewards pool, and take away the rewards that should go to people actually creating great content or interactions on the platform.
In my opinion, eventually they will get so bad here on Steemit, that the witnesses will be forced to take action against them.
That is very true.
I thought minnowbooster was created by one of the witness to promote minnows. Probably I had wrong.information.
Probably so, a bots priority here on Steemit is to make money for itself first and foremost, and then help its backers.
Think of it like this: The Steemit users give their monies to the bot, the bot keeps 75% of it, and gives back 25% collectively, which makes the bot and its owner richer and richer overtime, and extremely powerful to boot.
Now the percentages could be off, but you get the general idea.
I agree. But centralization is born when we ourselves kill decentralization. There has to be encouragement for new joiners.
Now today I posted a help guide for new joiners. It did not get even a single upvote. As a beginner why would I not try out bots. Why would one think of a system where he will not be alive for long. Anyone will think of own existence first. That's the bitter truth.