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You made a point in our prior discussion I feel I should respond to.

"However we do have reward pool mining bots, and changing the rules will not change that fact"

The rules that make such mining possible can also completely eliminate it. It is the extant rules that make rewards pool mining profitable.

Only changing the rules can make Steemit an actual social media platform, and instead they are intended to make mining Steem via pseudo-social interactions with bots profitable.

The white paper says one thing, mere rhetoric, while the actual code, the rules, do something completely different.

I don't waste much effort on hope. I try to attain reasonable expectations instead.

Worst case scenario, Steemit has been a benefit to me, by enabling me to engage with intelligent, sincere folks that care about their neighbors, and it gets cloned, without the initial flashmine that centralizes control.