RE: Monopoly of Upvotes With an Auto Upvote Bot -- This Ain't Gonna Help The Cause
This is the same thing as "scratch my back and I will scratch your". I tried making a curation trail for minnows but fellow minnows brush it off, they don't want to know you because you are not a whale. They only like to follow whales hoping that they will give them a vote... I have whales voted for me every now and then but at what rate? at 1% and if I get lucky I get 10%.. what is that $2?
I have been explaining if minnows make curation trail for fellow minnows to follow and it will be like upvoting each other without having to go and read every single post. If you make curation trail of only 100 members and all members will vote at 10% with a value of 0.05 multiply that with 100 members how much is that $5 and you get 100 votes which will give you more exposure. But unfortunately, no takers then they only keep getting what 10 cents?
Others oppose auto upvoters or bots but if you know how to utilize it, it is to your advantage. People are just sometimes lazy or don't want to think how to make things better for them. They just want to be spoon feed, which will not happen.
I have started with getting only cents per post but when I have learned a few tip and tricks and a good community to belong to it has gone better. And of course the aim of the game is to keep getting better.
I like your Idea about stating a curation trail for minnows. I would be interested in being a part of that. Lets discuss
You had this explained very well, exactly this is what I am talking about.
I resteemed your post, because I like when someone pick controversial topic. This site have problems and we should face them and make something.
Well its just to make things better for all :)
One a global view you might say that all current users are early adapters.
But if you examine the current situation you will see that the current minnows are actually very late to the party.
The whales have reached a certain point where self-voting can earn them several dollars a day. So their's very little incentives to help the new users.
The new users need to write a lot of content to compensate for this. So the current situation act basically as a piramide scheme: The newbies need to write dozens of articles, earning few pennies. Which makes up for self-voting whales.
You need * a lot* of minnows to vote. To come to a a few pennies. And apparently people aren't prepared to this.
It's easier to be a whale's begger then to earn your place.