I'm new and not doing any of the paid boosts or chatting. I can't tell you which ones I have looked at, but I've looked at a few of the tags where people pay to boost. What I see in those tags is is content that is generally lacking. I don't feel like those people will ever improve if they are artificially boosted.

Then the non-boosted stuff is awesome but makes no money. Not good for the content creators.

One day the boosted person will be 50 rep and still posting 30 words and a commons pic for a post. Who wants that? No one. Who would vote for that if they were not on a team? No one. So I think these bots encourage mediocrity.

I'm a content creator and I can't stand the copy paste trend. I have no idea how to handle it here since I'm new and not in the enforcement biz. But I say - nip it in the bud where ever it is seen.

One of the several reasons I joined steemit was because I am an internet researcher. In the last months before I got here, I had been sent to steemit posts by search engines. The steemit links were becoming more frequent and I was noticing that. I was very impressed with the content each time I came. That says a lot for the platform. I see a lot of garbage in my daily searching so I noticed.

I think keeping the quality high (and helping people to raise low quality as it is found) is key to the success here. The Alexa and Moz rankings got me here and the less garbage - the better.

I'm glad this worked out - what a scheme! Someone needs to corral that guy and turn him to the side of good since he obviously has the technical chops. But with the grandpa and all - I don't know :)

I would be a grandma if my 25 year old son would cooperate. How can I turn that into money? Hmm...