I'm wondering how many successful Steemians "made it" the hard way? Steemit and crypto mining is really for those who speak and write code.
A simple search for "upvote bot" will show you that there are ways to mine hardcore. I read one user created 150 bot accounts to upvote his posts and get it in the "hot" section. He concludes that it is just to show that it can be done, so the problem can be fixed. Really? Maybe. Or do users continue to use such tools to benefit from?
I really get why. These guys speak the language and use it to their advantage. I'm sure they put a lot of work in it to reap the benefits. If I had a coder brain, I'd probably hop on board, too.
However, this is one reason that Steemit will probably never be mainstream. You have equally hard working writers that put hours in their posts and because they can't write any code or have buddies that can, they'll make chump change.
I look at the "whats hot" or "whats trending" and I wonder how many of those guys are using bots as well? It's not that there aren't users that also upvote, but the coders/hackers can manipulate the view as more people upvote for already highly upvoted content, thinking the reward will be greater.
I don't know. Thinking about it, it's kind of a downer. What do you guys think? Is it right? Is it going to help Steemit or be it's downfall?
the incentive for people to create bots is heavily leaning toward creating a bot that people like and adds value to the system, just look at @cheetah , it's got a cost to run it and took a ton of work, but because it adds something of value people upvote it and support it, and on the same note there are bots people don't like and they either gain very little, nothing, or get flagged. I think the system allowing bots and pushing toward having bots of real value is something that makes steem BETTER than centralized social media platforms that try regulating it, and with AI rapidly advancing I think this puts steem in the most valuable position there can be for social media
Yes, I ran across @cheetah, but I'm not totally familiar with his bot. I remember seeing if a comment would get 2 percent upvote, it would get upvoted by his bot. The question is who gets to gain most from these bots? Cryptocurrency is still new to the majority of the world and public. Would you want Steemit to catch on to mainstream or would you rather it stay where it is?
Bots kill.
if they continue to let a steemian have multiple accounts there can be a steemian with a huge followers of fake accounts.
Yeah, I believe there are lots already.