Well said, I also viewed the thoughts of a whale post and felt that something needs to drastically change in order for a more balanced steemit.com, where you don't have to be a whale that invests thousands of dollars in order for your hard work to be recognized. While some of my work has been liked by others in the steemit community, most of it has received pennies. Regardless, I still continue to produce and curate, as I love interacting with others on steemit.
However, things have to change in order to lead more whales to manually curate and have incentives to not sell their votes, and that can only be done when there is less emphasis on selling your vote to external bots for profit, but instead receiving that profit for curators here on steemit. Until then, most people will be selling their votes to external bots since ultimately, they could care less about the content but rather their ROI.
Glad to see you think positive and this is something many on the platform thinks. This is keeping steemit alive, I hope more people start thinking on these lines, specially people with higher SP...Bots are definitely not the way forward
If these people want ROI they should do it on the markets not via steemit. This is similar to how music people sell thier souls. It's very sad. I have faith in this platfotm and it's users. Like you said, there is still content and cool people to meet on here
We definitely have amazing people, we need to sort out few issues to make the numbers grow
I was also happily posting and commenting, making peanuts. Then a damned bot with whale status stopped by to insult my work. Yes, I am "overly sensitive" because I am a HUMAN. What that bot did to my day almost made me leave.