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RE: The Steemit Community And Its Weird Traits – 3 Ideas
Your spot on with your description of bots. I think they started as a way to help out minnows by boosting their posts a little bit. But becuase of human greed they have grown to what they are now and have taken over to the point where manual curation is declining. Manual curation is suppose to be the foundation of Steemit - the USERS decide what is valuable content and not bots!
I use bots from time to time myself - we are kind of forced to as a way to get our posts seen now - sad really!
I think the reason for the limited payouts is to cotninue to encourage us to keep fresh and pumping out new content - but I agree there are plenty of gems out there that never got the recognition they deserved!
Great read thanks!
Thank you @conradt. You really are forced to use bots, since you have a competitive disadvantage if you don't. No way to determine which content is regarded as better. In real life and old school media, theres plenty of well funded crap too. We started out to do it better though, didn't we?