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wow i didn't know you were gonna reply! you have some interesting work. some haters too. but you're starting a discussion that should be addressed on a deeper level by the community. and steemic inc too. recently i've seen ned talk about the issue but clearly he doesn't have an answer either (not surprising because nobody does). it's too bad people are too aggressive discussion goes out the window.

well he's talking about smts and account-based voting and how they can be more democratic. but they're gonna have the exact same problems we have now. he did also mention 'better algorithms' which is just too vague. if you know some solutions that is clearly better but they're just hesitant to implement pls enlighten me because i'm interested 😃

it would be profitable for curation bots and people would just shift gears. whales would get even more power than they already have. they don't have to seek unnoticed work. whatever they vote will have more exposure. that's sellable already. basically handing them higher interest rates.

it's a cool idea. but i wonder if a solution to completely stop people from spending money (or other resources) to promote something is a solution at all. i love steemit because there's transparencybots and buildawhalebots. on the same platform!
the fact that you have transparencybots already makes people think twice before using buildawhalebots. i know i did. i weighed the options, and decided to try it. in fact i didn't know about buildawhalebots until i saw a post with a transparencybot comment.

i like that you said you're simply showing the facts. without being too aggressive, you're still leaving the freedom for people to choose. to me that's progress already. and thanks for the explanation.