Now I get bid bot owners own their bots and they should have the right to use them how they see fit, but I would argue it's dangerous how they have the ability to create an unlevel playing field when they decide to help and support some creators and block others.
the example of the NBA ... this is already happening ... Formula 1.
On the other hand, bid bots are not the problem, them are part of the consequences of the problem ... The real problem is the traffic of votes. I mean, it's criticized that someone uses a bot, but is not it that your friend gives you a vote of great value?
What you bring up about friends voting is interesting. I think in many ways human nature tends to affect Steemit the same way it affects real life.
In real life its hard to get ahead, on Steemit its hard to get ahead. In real life greed and lazyness causes people to cut corners, on Steemit money being involved causes people to cut corners and try to game the system. In real life nepotism happens and people tend to help friends and family so the same is goign to happen on here. So I think some of what's going on is just bound to happen.
So if I follow your saying its a negative that we vote for our friends regardless of whether their content is good or bad? I would agree with you, I know I do that, there's a handful of people on here who every post they make they get a 100% upvote from me but I also try to spread some love around and upvote new people and various people I see who create good content.
In terms of that vs bid bots I would almost compare it to spinach vs steroid for athlets. Performance enhancing drugs are now allowed in most sports. Athletes can however eat spinache which is healthy and improves their performance to an extent but not to the extent of steroids or HGH. I would say voting for freinds is like spinach and bid bots are like steroids.
Steemit will never be perfect because people aren't perfect and life isn't perfect however as we can see by what's going on right now steemit isn't doing the best it has.
remember when people in africa and asia used to be steem ambassaddors and be posting pictures of their whole town wearing steemit shirts or holding steemit signs? we dont see that anymore. remember when people were posting quality long form content everyday? those people now post once or twice a week and some havn't posted in like 30 days. now that all the everyone getting rich off crypto hype has died the platform has gone downhill. when money isn't here to keep people around quality content and a good experience has to do it and we dont really have that here to the extent we need to
When I started here I was gung ho about posting my step by step how too's and tutorials. I'm talking quality content that would actually teach people how to make stuff. now I can care less as this site just seems to be a crypto chart circle jerk. I suppose I am just waiting to see something interesting pop into my feed like the above post.
Hey @motinkergnome I completely agree with you. Most of the discussion on here and most of the content on here is either about cryptocurrency or Steemit itself.
I bet you could post awesome DIY tutorials and example of your work and really cool stuff and you would probably make $0.50 per post. On the flip side you could probably take a screenshot of coinmarketcap.com and post it everyday and would probably earn $5 per post.
This site is definitely too centric on cryptocurrency. Don't get me wrong I like crypto but I also enjoy documentaries, DIY stuff, entrepreneurship and business content and news etc. This site will never get mainstream adoption and be a place normal average people come for content unless we get more of that type of stuff and even then the interface can't really match pinterest or instagram for pictures, youtube for video, etc.
I'm not trying to down Steemit b/c I like it here but I guess I don't get what Steemit and everyone's mission is. Do we want mainstream use and adoption? Do we want this to be a social media site that average people come to like they do pinterest, instagram, facebook etc?
I agree completely. I have been trying to get my family and friends on and they were like why it is just garbage posts.
Yeah while occasionally there are some gems on here in terms of content I don't come here for the same reason or in the same way that I go to reddit or youtube because i genuinely enjoy the content on there, I come here to kind of play the game of upvoting my friends, posting my own shit, claiming my rewards. Its more a job than leisure where as youtube and reddit I truly enjoy and learn and am entertained on those platforms. I'm here because I'm part of this site and have been here for a long time but I honestly couldn't blame or even necessarily disagree with someoen who's not a content creator or into crypto who comes on here at the urging of a friend and then is like that's fucking dumb