I am so happy to read this post.
I have been on steemit since June and the rise of the bots has increasingly worried me about the future of the platform. I have not used them, I do not think they should be on steemit, and I believe they go against the core principles of what I thought steemit was about.
It is so good to see long term steemians like yourself come out against them. It gives me hope.
Thank you.
Hey @pennsif! Thanks for your kind words.
It's important to differentiate between bots and vote trading. Using a bot that simply allocates votes according to my own algo and in order to save time for instance is not a problem to me.
What I wanted to bring out is the fact that some services on steemit buy and sell votes in a dimension that is considerably disequilibrate the eco-system of steemit. A bot as an "extended arm" doesn't have such impact.
Thanks for stopping by!
Sorry yes, that was laziness in my terminology. I used the term bots too loosely.
I understand and agree with your differentiation between the autovote type service and the vote-trading for profit type service. The first can be a useful tool. The second has the undesirable consequences for steemit.
No problem at all! That's why we're talking :-)