Man.

This whole thread makes me start to lose trust for the whole platform.

If this turns into a bot-fest, there's no way the platform as a whole will succeed.

People are only going to come in to use Steemit if there's quality content.

But if the incentive for creators is to fake or hack the system vs. actually create good stuff, the overall user base will fail in the mid to long run.

It'll just be a short-term bot fest that makes the whole feed smell like greed and low-quality content.

Really, the best thing to do (instead of trying to bot your way to success) would be to help this platform take off by creating good content.

Otherwise all the STEEM you make via bots will be worthless when the whole platform tanks because everyone is cheating the system and no one actually wants to use the platform as a consumer.

Self-serving destroys the whole. Always.

That's true here just like it's true on a global scale.

Help the platform succeed, and everyone on it today will succeed too.