I don't see bots as a replacement for social interaction. For me they are just paid advertisement - no emotional involvement around them for me.
If I pay for Google Ads it also doesn't substitute the fact that what I'm offering has to have a high value for people - and the ROI has to be higher than my initial investment in the ads. Just business.
The fact that social interactions have become a business is also nothing new and it lies deeply rooted in Steem. The first month this has been very strange for me too, but since I have adjusted to some of the basic facts of how this system works, I have found great pleasure in it.
I don't worry much about the downsides of this system, because there is one saying, that I love and work from for many years now:
You can't fake value! Value will always win, because value is defined on the receiver side and you can't argue with that - so why not relax into this knowledge and let others do, what they do best (and so naturally perfect): define the value. For me, this is a huge relief...
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We will see true value discovery when exchanges are prevented from pumping the prices of all crypto assets. Then we'll see how valuable everything is really perceived to be.
Bid bots are simply fake it till you make it, everyone is vying for consistent whale votes, and vote buyers do provide some of the price floor for SBD. I would estimate however that 99% of the reason SBD is so insanely priced is pump and dump groups out of Upbit.
I think it is quite different from Google Ads in that the viewer of the ad gets a share of the revenue. Any interaction there can be mined for SP and SBD.
So there is this incentive to interact with the ad because of the potential to make money.
The biggest "ad buys" get the most clicks and most money for least work by the viewer of the ad.
Sounds like a black/grey hat troll farm to me. All we need are a few more bots, right?
I am not on the anti-bot bandwagon, and am a very new user here, I'm just talking in general, big picture ideas. I think bots can be valuable tools in communities.
Google Ads are different because clicking on them only gives the content creator a reward. The BUYER is going to get something, but they'll pay.
When that changes to the buyer being able to extract value from ad participation, it changes the nature of the game entirely. The game changes to "Man, if I could just automate this process and get more voting power..." Which quickly becomes "we need more bots" in a competitive money making environment.
Thanks for the history lesson and great discussion here.