Steemit "Proof of Brain" evolved to "Proof of Bid"

Last months were very intense to me. From a Steemit outsider, I quickly became passionate about the driving ideas behind this platform. I grew moved and willing to participate in the makings of it.

Although I had to leave it for a while (about eight months), I came back and became astonished with what I saw.

Steemit is still in "Beta" mode! How is that possible?

If anyone has comments about the Dev. Team -please!- help us all understand what is being done to improve the platform.

From the design and inner workings, I see no change after more than eight months. This is concerning in a sense, given we are in "beta mode" and we should be implementing and testing new features all along.

The Dev. phase can easily profit and feed their ideas just by listening to comments and experiences being described throughout the entire Steemit community.

If anyone here decides to buckle down and understand the workings of Steemits's gracious engine, I believe it is inevitable to come out without a sharp criticism to voting-bots.

Just built up your mind about it.

Something I already told you all: "voting-bots are affecting the pools reward distribution and acting as promoters of low-quality content."

Steemit was built as a community where users are rewarded for sharing their voice with reward distribution according to the community curation. Indeed, curation happens to be one of the most valuable human-inputs from this platform, together with the content production itself!

A great human-value is shining up through Steemit platform. Astonishing experiences and creative views are being shared, unleashing unprecedented life-changing potentials and building a unique historical record of our time.

Envision that in the long run. Steem blockchain might become a precious cultural library over time. A database which is holding humanity wisdom inputs from all over the globe, under no guiding rule and fully accessible to anyone.

Bots are convenient for some, but that comes at the cost of destroying the fundamental concept to which this platformed is based on, the so-called "Proof of Brain," which is the basis for the distribution of Rewards (Steem tokens) when a new block is produced in the Steem blockchain.

Voting bots just made this platform "evolve" from a "Proof of Brain" to a "Proof of BidBot" system. The best bot, with the best associated tools & visibility, will receive most of the delegation power, and this will become the notion of "Successful in Steemit Platform." (Some bots already have implemented Machine Learning features... check out @trufflepig for example)

Is it what we want?

I am sure this is producing a sound trail of jaded writers who actually buckle down to deliver sound content, but get no attention.

I tried to raise Against It, but I can't leave my SP sitting and losing value due to inflationary pressure. I understand the market pressure on all cryptocurrencies. But here at Steemit platform, inflation is also something we all should worry about.

My SP is currently delegated to @therising, in test mode. And yes, you can get some 16% of extra SP per year if you do that.

But this is not what I really want.

I will keep delegating for a while, maybe. But what I really wanted to see here, is a way to block bid-bots, and let the platform flourish, driven by human-curation.

Isn't that why the Steemit platform exists?

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