It has come to my attention that this is what we want for the future of STEEMIT, no? When it comes to Sophia the Robot and SingularityNET it doesn't surprise me that so much automation is taking over cryptocurrency. Even curation. False curation at that.Isn't curation supposed to prove quality? Here's what I can see people saying about Steemit in the future:"Don't bother with steemit unless you know how to code a bot.""Don't bother with Steemit unless you can afford to put up $100 just to promote your post"Here is one quote I've seen an upvote bot using:
"Don't power-up! Send your SBD to the upvote bot so people can't see that you're upvoting yourself!
I watch people dump crazy amounts of money into bots. What is this, iRobot? Most bot services don't even care about the content they upvote, they are happy to do it for the money!
In my conclusion
I have determined that nobody gives a damn and people are going to abuse the system until steemit is worthless. Only then will someone with enough power speak up.
That is disappointing indeed. You may be right as well. I think that the community will come together and make Steem a better platform as a result but I've always been quite positive and forward thinking... It may be naive but I'm still hopeful things are going to get better on Steem!
The only people with the guts to do something is @berniesanders and @grumpycat. Everybody else with the power to stop the abuse seems to be sucking up as much SBD as they can, completely ignoring the giant Pink Elephant sitting in the room. Of course, the same people who aren't doing anything about it are also making serious cash with upvotes, upvote bots and more.