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RE: Amidst the Bid-bot Crisis--Community Curation & a lack thereof--The Future of Steem(it)
Too much content goes unnoticed and this leads to many people (nearly 9/10) just giving upYes and no - people give up pretty easily on Steemit - its not the get rich quick scheme that its made out to be. Some of my earlier posts made little to nothing, but through networking and being consisten I am slowly building my account.
In terms of whales the reason loads of the m have bots in because manual curation takes alot of time - and time = money. Why spend hours doing something you can programe the computer to do for you?
I dont really think that the bots are the issue its the way they get abused by people creating junk content and then spending loads to get it noticed, and this pushes the un noticed content further into the abbyss.
I dont really use bots to often now - every now and again to get a bit more exposure to competitions and thats about it
I have noticed that the networking and reaching out to other users alike has not really generated as much of a difference as I thought it would, which is actually pretty surprising.
The fact that I almost have to go out of my way to see a post of someone who I follow closely like @daltono or @nikolina says something and speaks volume. daltono posts like 5 times a day and still, I hardly ever even see one of his posts appear on my feed. It's really a struggle to see content here.
I agree with you in terms of the time = money. And the fact that abusing the bot system with huge bids is the actual problem because like you said, this just pushes the other high-quality, non-promoted content straight under the rug.
Thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts @conradt
-Respect
Interesting - try following fewer people - Im pretty harsh with this and often go through and unfollow people for various reasons - I only follow about 150ish people. It does make a big difference and my feed is better and im more likely to see what I enjoy.
Cool name by the way! :P
yeah, that's actually a good idea and I bet this will help the cause!!
thanks, back at ya!!