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RE: An Objective Look at Vote Buying Bots and Some Other Steemit Stuff
I mean you could have topped off the irony of the post by using a bidbot to promote it, but still well said.
When I used to see crap at the top of trending I could generally determine a reason, like "Oh, this whale likes memes or obviously this whale likes to smoke pot" When there wasn't an obvious connection you would dig a little deeper and find some people vote trading or close geographical community promoting their own, etc.. I might not have liked it all but it made sense to me.
Now I see random garbage at the top and just ignore it, there is no deeper insight needed, they just paid to get it there.
I'm gonna have to say something here, though, about the trending page. I've made fun about it in the past, as well - a lot. But honestly, I don't think it's very fair to make a blanket statement call all of it "garbage", straight up.
The reason I don't enjoy it is the trending page has a lot of very general stuff. It almost never happens that I open the trending page and find something I want to click on.
It doesn't make content garbage, though. I'm sure there are people who enjoy some of that stuff.
However, it is something that does make me sad that there seems to be very little "daring" content at the top. It's all very safe - and to a guy like me, boring.
That's just my subjective view, though.
Oh not all of it is garbage by any means, I meant that when I do see a random out of place article at the top, I know why it is there.
Oh yet another judge of all things quality and garbage. Exactly what I get tired of on Steemit. If it is so bad, why are you here?
Don't knock judgements; without them, things rarely improve. Some people stay here to try and make things better instead of going away.
I've seen you make better arguments.
I must say this is also true. Man, there was good quote somewhere by someone. It was something along the lines of: "Don't think meaningful change can't be caused by a small group of people wanting change; indeed, they're the only ones who ever have."
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have." Margaret Mead
True.. shit. I guess I really need to take a break. The constant negative noise has finally pushed me over the edge.
Dang it, I know you are right. It was snarky and petty.