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RE: Bots are Ruining the Mainstream Potential of Steemit
I 1) completely disagree that people will not accept bots and 2) don't think we can really stop them. This is an incentive system and a complex dynamic system. Whether human bots or robot bots are gaming it doesn't matter.
My question to you is, why doesn't it matter? Are you excited for the fact that we are going to be conversing with bots? Are you excited to share a social space with non-human interactions? Do you really think that mainstream people will be OK with this?
So you're equivocating bots that spam comments and noise with bots that automate voting on behalf of accounts?
One is obviously useless and bots have already been made to downvote identified spam bots.
The other provides increased rates of wealth disbursement within the ecosystem.
Provides increased rates of wealth disbursement? It's cheating, and you know it.
A bot is a bot, doesn't matter what it does. You either have them all, or you have none. I'd prefer none.
I'm not sure why "mainstream people" are so important to you versus any other kind of interesting people.
Steem is worth close to nothing if it doesn't tap into the mainstream market at some point. You can already see the price is going down after the early July boom. If the goal for Steem is to be a secluded community, then it has already failed. Sad that you cannot see this.
Well, I'd like it to be a useful platform before looking at things like "the mainstream market" and "the price is going down". I didn't know the price had anything to do with an attempted decentralized reddit clone and blogging platform.
Price is really the only thing that separates this from Reddit and other blogging platforms. Without worth, no one would be here. Being decentralized, a term which is so overused anyway, doesn't really matter for a social media platform it only matters if the coin has any worth.
Without worth, no one mines.
Without miners, the network is not secure.
Without a secure network, the coin fails completely.
Also, kinda dumb that I couldn't reply to your last post directly... seems like there is only a certain amount of nested posts before the reply button just disappears. @tie-warutho