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RE: BOTS - WE ARE DRAINING THE STEEMIT REWARD POOL
Some of those "weeds" are beautiful flowers. Some are healing medicines. To get rid of them all would destroy the garden. Of course, there are also weeds that just strangle out other plants. Those can be pruned back with flagging.
But both flagging and upvoting only really matters if you have built up value in the platform.
Even users that can't contribute monetarily often contribute to the platform as a whole.
The point of the upvotes is make it easier to find good content, as well as pay people for their time and work. Those creating content, whether they be minnows or whales, are the ones that are giving true value to the platform. The system may simply need to be adjusted.
That was an scary scenario, if people are worried so much about the reward pool then that means less people in the platform means bigger reward pool to be split between them.
But check this post by @dragosroua 10 months ago explaining why there is no such thing as draining the reward pool. https://steemit.com/steemit/@dragosroua/why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-draining-the-reward-pool
I already read it, when you first mentioned it.