RE: 🌠 BidBots -- Yea or Nah ? 🌠
Here's the post I was thinking of. I messed up the number but it's still pretty bad (I suck at remembering numbers--will edit my previous comment so as not to mislead any readers going forward). Over 30% of curation rewards go to bots; over 25% of all SBD earned goes to them, and over 10% of all earnings total go to bots. If you think about that, it's a HUGE amount of money, enough that if any one of those bidbot owners decided to cash out and go retire in Costa Rica tomorrow, they could crash the price of STEEM easily. It also means that all of that money is being taken out of the reward pool the rest of us share.
I think they're stealing from all of the users of the site by hoarding the reward pool. Sure, the people that "feed" them with SBD/STEEM are doing it willingly, but the rest of us are not. We're so quick to come down on haejin for "stealing" from the reward pool (I object to the use of the term "reward pool rape," which people like to do) but what he's doing is causing a minuscule fraction of the damage that the bots are to the internal economy. And they're doing it knowing that it's cheating newbies out of what little money they make.
Those numbers are interesting. Looks like Steemit works the same as funds in the real world work. The ones at the top have the majority.
The only problem I have with hajin upvoting himself constantly is that ( from what I seen ) he only upvotes himself / upvotes others very little. But ultimately that is his choice to make.
The way I look at it is .. he invested and is currently reaping the rewards of his investment. He is free to do so just like anyone who wants to flag him is also free to do so.
As for taking money out of the reward pool, that is what we are all here to do. We didn't invest to just keep our funds on Steemit forever. We want a return on our money / time. And as you said .. the reward pool belongs to everyone so each individual gets to decide what to do with their share of it.
And that takes me back to the bid-bots. I don't view it as stealing. When you pay for a good and receive that good or service it isn't theft. The buyer gets a return on their purchase. Didn't like the return ? Don't use the service again .. just like you would do in other aspects of your life.