So many great comments about your topic, but nobody mentioned the BOTS. My personal feeling about them is that they should NOT be used to upvote posts. I have no issues with the bots doing clean-up work like Cheeta and steemcleaners. However, I believe that those projects that allow people to buy votes are also damaging the platform. Yes, I can see how many minnows flock to the minnowsupport project to get access to the voting bot that gets them extra votes and helps them win popularity contests and the like. Projects like these and randowhale do in fact give the minnows a hand up, but I have yet to use any of them because I don't want to be part of the growing reason for the proliferation of bot voting. I suffer the low earnings and few votes, but in the end I believe I am truly supporting the platform as a whole to succeed and I wish more people would look at the long term rather than go for the quick buck. Do we really want to continue adding bots to the point where most of the voting is done without even opening the post to see what's inside? Where is the SOCIAL in that? That is not a social media platform, it's an autonomous bot platform!
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At the end of the day though who will control the bots? The source code is pretty much open-sourced. Anyone can automate anything they want.
that is true to some extent. This is why is better to let the users decide what the platform is all about instead of saying that is an easy money maker.
I don't believe 'control' is in the cards here. I think 'socially acceptable' would be a better term. If people stopped using the bots then there wouldn't be any use in building them.
Saying that the platform is an easy money-maker is not entirely untrue. Those who have invested a lot of their own money or were early adopters and earned sufficient SP can make some easy coin. However, advertising the platform as an easy way to make money for someone new and without the resources to invest money into the platform would be untrue.
This is why I advertised this platform to my FB friends as How To Grow A Money Tree. It takes careful planning and a lot of nurturing to start a seedling that will take time to grow and bear fruit.