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RE: @surfermarly is right to say that greed has overtaken community spirit on Steemit.

in #zappl7 years ago (edited)

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.