RE: New user here and I’m frustrated AF.
I can definitely understand and share some of your thoughts. And these bots are a problem on this platform but they won't go away only by complaining about them.
What people need to do is flag those users abusing them but the problem is you need to be powerful yourself to see the effect. I guess it's all just like in real life. Be rich to become even more rich.
But when I compare it with other platforms at least I HAVE the possibility to flag trash and take away at least some of their rewards which is definitely an advantage.
I would like to see built in notifications on steemit as well but if you use Discord GINAbot can help you out with that.
And don't forget that all of this is still beta. I guess there's a lot more to come in the future ;)
How often do they push out new features? As someone who has built follower model social architecture in the past, I know it's not complicated to implement push notifications. This site is bare bones which is fine, but I am wondering if the team has the ability to iterate. I'm not complaining about the bots, just not sure what to make of them as they are either keeping the site together or ruining it. I can't tell but something doesn't feel right.
I‘ve seen some minor updates on the layout since I‘ve been here so there is something happening but not a bigger update yet.
And bots won‘t ruin this platform by themselves. It‘s up to the people and how they decide. There are definitely some disadvantages but in general I have never seen such a great community and to be honest I lost hope a long time ago that something like this would still be possible on the internet nowadays.
So they do design updates on occasion but rarely push new functionality updates? I’m really surprised to see there’s not much of a voting algorithm for content and comments. Id like to see the best content and comments rise to the top regardless of the users numerical (rank). I’d like to hear your thoughts as to why bots can’t ruin things? Not sure how long you have been here but I’d like to know how things were before the bots arrived. Thanks for the response.
Upvote bots don't upvote by themselves but only when people send money to them. That's why it's up to the people if bots will ruin this platform or not.
I understand but why are bots needed? They are juicing post that wouldn't be there otherwise. RIght? Can content not rise to the top without the bots? Does the platform need a downvote (not flag) to remove the subpar content that reaches the top only because their (rank) and followers count. See with reddit or hacker news (follower model) is not important in the grand scheme and this gives new users a chance to get organic upvotes without worrying about the rank to get their postings up while earning karma points. Something just seems off. Thanks for educated me.