Why do bid-bots exist - I can (partially) understand
What I can not understand is why those bid-bots are not supporting top quality content creators?
For bid-bots, it would be basically the same, for the platform it would be waaay better.
Why is it a problem to recruit the best content creators from Instagram, 500px, YouTube... and make some sort of "contract" with them?
I guess there are 2 reasons:
- currently active users don't want to compete with those who are competent
- currently active users are ideologically possessed and believe in a completely different reality
It's difficult to describe how bad it is to a real photographer to see that sub mediocre photo gets 20$ while the perfect photo gets 1$
And bid bots generally goes by “give me a dollar, I’ll give you two in return”. Most people will see it as a red flag for scam.
Of course they are almost a scam. But if they want to "sell" their power, why they don't approach the communities instead. Or really good authors and make a long term deal with them. That's the thing I can't understand.
Probably because it would take more than one (usually) to get to high trending. It also doesn't help that most bots (perhaps all) don't actually have QA teams to check what they are promoting.
For the most part, it's all indiscriminate upvotes unless you wind up on a blacklist. Owners also make less money if they set up more conditions.