Obviously, we see a lot more bot votes than before right now, since popularity is rising. I don't like this idea at all actually. I mean, firstly, there are tons of autovotes being made no matter the quality of the post. Even if someone posts shit all day, if he gets some nice autovotes, he will profit big time.
I'm not against autovoting, but people should care a bit more about how they use their autovotes and on who they use it.
Secondly, bot votes give the ability to get anyone on the trending/hot pages even if you provide no value whatsoever.
What it does for me? I never check the trending page, never ever... Because I know that when I open up this page, I'll see only some bullshit that is not even interesting. Is that what Steemit is all about? Where is the exploration? Where is the content that could teach you something new every day? Barely anything interesting is being posted, because everyone is here to game the system and earn the biggest rewards possible.
Nobody seems to be even trying to put up anything interesting. Memes, shit posts and plagiarized content seems to be the king here.
Plus, it's especially discouraging to most members, especially the new ones, to see a user posting memes daily and earning huge rewards, while you could be putting in a lot of hard work in your posts, but earn cents or a couple of dollars.
If this continues, we won't have any interesting content left on Steemit. Well, there might be interesting content, but you won't find it easily, because 90% of the posts are shit.
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Steemit is evolving, it is no more just about blogging anymore..
.the main reason for steemit is to mine steem, nothing necessary blogging. This is why Ned just recently delegated over 600000 steem power to dmania.
So you're saying that Steemit should head this direction? A place where you post shit all day to mine some coins? This way the rich are getting richer, because they have thousands of dollars to pay for voting bots. Where do the minnows stand in such place? Not being able to afford voting bots would mean doom to any new user, because nobody would care about anyone's content. All that would matter is buying yourself a fat vote and enjoying the process of Steem and SBD going into your wallet. If that's the direction everyone wants to go, so be it...