This sounds exactly like a post of mine from a little over a week ago. It's so true, and so terrible. Upvote Bots are going to destroy Steemit, as are the Resteem for a price people ... Please can't we just end the madness!?
Everyone says that "it's too hard to stop the bots", and therefore, implying, that it's not worth trying. That's the WRONG attitude.
We ALL need to work together to stop this epidemic before it destroys the platform, and more importantly COMMUNITY, that so many of us enjoy on a daily basis!
Since my old post is lost a bit down my blog, this is a link. I also talked about the Re-Steeming epidemic. Feel free to take a look, or ignore.
Cheers!
I think the resteem shit won't last. People will use them and won't make anything from it, because most of the followers are bots on these accounts. Eventually they will be seen as unprofitable and people will no longer use them. However, vote-selling-bots provide the illusion of profitability, because so few people are examining the bigger picture, so that will likely continue until we are wise enough as a community to simply stop using them. And when we do, because the whales won't be using that power, all of our votes will become more powerful, and we will be able to reward one another enough that people won't need to use them anyway.
Also, I agree that Resteem SHOULDN'T LAST, but then again, there shouldn't be 10+ highly successful upvote bots either.
Everyone needs to remember that for every vote made, all other votes are valued less. There is a finite rewards pool, and it decreases for every vote that is made during the day. Too many votes from these bots will only decrease the value of your reward from the bot.
By everyone using these bots, and some people to a ridiculous extreme, it's a guarantee that your received votes will all count for less at the end of the day!
Yes that is true. It wasn't so noticeable when the payouts were on 1 day cycles. I still think it was an awful idea to change to 7 days before resolving the post-lifetime issue. Now it's like, you spend a few hours on a post, then a few hours later it's on like 5 dollars, then for the rest of the week you watch it slowly go down to 3. Makes no sense at all to be using 7 day cycles when only trending posts really get seen for longer than a day.