It's absolutely ridiculous that the issue of upvote bots and site exposure hasn't been addressed properly.
Instead of trying to fix the problem we programmers are stuck in the old ways of simply trying to abuse the system.
It's like a professional athlete that does performance enhancing drugs: "Everyone else does it so I have to do it to stay competitive."
No... no you don't. The programmers on this chain need to remove head from ass and program ways to find the real content. Wade through the shit and find those candy sprinkles.
Ohhh but, steemit frontend developers if they exist are not steem blockchain developers - right?
You're using minnowbooster. You're paying for upvotes to make it look like your content is better than it is. You're part of the problem.
Obviously, the whales drowning out your content with their massive payouts is a bigger problem. Fixing a problem with another problem seems to be how people operate around here.