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RE: What is appropriate use of upvote bots? A survey.
I for one will tell you that post values on other people's posts or how they got them matters absolutely zero in my decision to read/vote/resteem anything. Why would it? Like at all?
I read what I read, and I do what I do about it. Other people's actions on a post have no bearing whatsoever in what I personally choose to do.
At most I might look at a big dollar value post's voters just to see who likes them, out of pure curiosity, but not to make any decisions.
That you are a very rational person is nice for you but in truth we are humans and most of us are intrigued even if involuntarily by high value posts. As in "Why has this post earned $150, can I learn something from it so my posts get such nice rewards too?" And if you look around, there are few consistent patterns to answer such a question. One is of course the "group of whales" - one of them has posted and others have voted. Or some VIP who posts something and it attracts SBD like honey attracts flies. But for middling dolphins, what you learn is that it's the bots who helped a post draw you attention (regardless of the post's quality)
I agree with the "gentleman club rules" the author proposes: use bots because they are here and if you don't, the most determined "reward pool rapists" (to quote @berniesanders) will get away with an even greater booty. But exercise restraint.
Yes, It shouldn't matter how they got those votes if the posts are actually interesting and valuable, but when all the shit posts are flying around, bot votes are only helping them to get onto the front page (trending/hot) leaving all the interesting posts never to be seen.
We need to see more great content getting better rewards, because remember, new users will always take the examples that they see when they join.
If they join and all they see is memes and two sentence posts earning hundreds of dollars, they will obviously attempt posting shit as well. Thus, the amount of interesting content will be decreasing with each day/week/month.
I understand the argument, it's been made for the whole year I've been here.
people will degrade to the garbage they see!
whales should be pushing better stuff to trending
its not fair!
people will leave!
and yet, they go to 7-11 instead of whole foods anyway.
Markets gonna market. Adapt, improvise and overcome, or don't play?
All the good content creators find each other.
This is planet earth. My television has 270 channels. I don't watch the shitty ones, just because they are more prevalent than the good ones.
And which ones are the good ones? Cartoon network? Or A&E? I find A&E boring.....
Hello @sircock
I for one don't attach the quality of a post to the amount it makes. I check the Impact of the post.
But I am often saddened when Shitposts makes money. I believe that it is a huge diversion from the tenet of this platform which calls us to hold valuable things in high esteem
It is! but it's also possible and allowed. So, ignore and be better than that! Seriously, there are shitty resturants making a ton of money. Does that stop the 5 star resturant just because McDonalds exists?
Curious question... do you flag the shiposts you see?
I'd like to see more voting based on personal perception of the contents merit, regardless of what others think or do.
Freedom of mind is everything.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!