Speaking of financial reward lighting up social interaction, I'm paying people weekly to engage and delegating Steem Power to the best of them :D
Well if the big players are performing one of those jerking circle things, someone's got to do it!
Now Bid-bots try to beat the system, buying people into the community, letting them skip the whole process of social engagement and value contribution.
The blogs of the 'Bid-bot fanatics' are generally quite bereft of comments of any value, and so when the goalposts move again, these people will likely suffer the most.
...letting them skip the whole process of social engagement and value contribution
I think this example sums the above up nicely: https://steemit.com/cryptokitties/@brittuf/fancy-cats-should-be-worth-more-soon-on-cryptokitties
'Skip' though, or just covering the cracks for now? :)
I hope you are enjoying your holidays!
I think once the community feature is installed, it will reorganize the whole community. Followership you gain through bid bots is not as strong as the community you build around you through social engagement and interaction. Bots don't go to Steemfest - do they? :-D
I have never understood what cryptokitties are. Is it something like snapchat? Or pokemon? I have a clear opinion about the latter actually:
:-D
Yes I am! 100%.
Cryptokitties is a game that was designed to help people get familiar with making transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
On the cryptokitties website, you can use Ethereum tokens to buy an avatar of a cat: a cryptokitty. Each cryptokitty has unique traits like the color of its background, stripes, moustaches, etc. The fun part is that you can buy two cryptokitties and breed them to create a new cryptokitty with random traits inherited from its parents. Also, someone can pay you Ethereum tokens to borrow your cryptokitty for breeding.
Does this help?
Oh dear, haha! Do adult people do such things? Seriously?
Yeah that helps, thank you :-)