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RE: The Heck is going on with Steem?
Fortunately the issues you've mentioned are on the front-end Steemit level, not the Steem blockchain level. This means that even if Steemit doesn't fix these issues, the blockchain will live on and another Steem front-end service with a different curation model could take over.
Excellent point, but it also means steemit, if it stays in tact, will remain abuse-able on some level. People could still use this front end to vote themselves with voting bots. At least it seems that way, maybe it wouldn't be enough if everyone moved to a new front end.
Steemit is just a website, a door for the blockchain; it has nothing to do with the issues mentioned above. Steemit could disappear over-night, and the issues would remain the same, people can still access the blockchain through @busy.org or one of the other countless apps.
Steemit has no issue and nor Steem, from a technical point of view, the issues are at the level of the community and how they decide to act on the blockchain.
Yes, ultimately the problem are pesky humans ! :-)
Precisely what the followers of Marx and lening have discovered in their quest to build Communism, the workers' paradise !
They've discovered that humans are cheating weasels who, if an avenue for abuse is left open, will use it to perform abuse !
They discovered that humans do not in any reliable way "give according to their ability and take according to their needs" but rather tend to "give as little as they can get away with and take as much as they can get away with".
"Sad but true" (c) Metallica 1991
Could a new front end use different rules? I know steemit is close to rule free, but I'm guessing(not sure) some other front end could either introduce something to beat out bid bots or ban them(which would mean centralization in some form...)
Interesting, but isn't that just because Steemit encourages such behaviour because Capital is still privately owned?
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