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RE: I joined the dark side: selling and buying votes
Indeed, that's what I state in my conclusion. On the one hand good content can get more attention if the writer uses bots to promote and gives visibility but it's not healthy in the long term. In my opinion one of the strong points of steemit is the community interaction and this is partly stimulated by curation rewards. But you start to lose that with these bots.
Agreed. If everyone is using bots to boost themselves, then you lose a bit of the charm of the platform. I love the idea that you can earn massively on Steemit, but what I appreciate even more is the notion that this should come in the form of rewards for effort.
I have used bots, don't get me wrong, but something felt a little weird about it. I now completely avoid the trending page as it's generally filled with posts about flagging wars that have been boosted up there with big bot bids (tongue twister?). I worry that new users will head straight for the trending page when they join and immediately be put off.
Uhu. I feel a strong need for next steemit update where they add community's. I mostly go strait to https://steemit.com/created/diving where I check if yew interesting things are posted in my niche. But it's not only the general 'trending' page that counts but also the one of large tags like travel, steemit, nature, life, sports, ...
And indeed it feels a bit strange to boost your own posts. This is the 2nd time I've done it and I will see. The whole bot thing is in experimental/evaluation mode for me right now.
Thanks for your comments and response!