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RE: 'Curation Trail' vs "Promoted post" an ethical dilemma...

in #curation-trail • 7 years ago

Nice to get a good decent sober comment @thetreeoflife.

I actually appreciate some post promotion, as there are a lot of great articles written here that no one ever sees, because of a simple lack of exposure, and has nothing to do with the quality of the post.

I agree to the fullest...

When a huge group sees a quality post and promotes it, obviously that's the best, and probs most ethical way but usually they also have a curation trail of "mindless or read less voting".

So having a "curation trail" inhibits giving a nicely "100% powered upvote" to a really awesome article you stumble upon?

I'm not on discord and not always up to date with the latest trend also tend to go my own way, so I don't really join up with serious groups, (well,I do use @artturtle because I'm a patron of the arts, but other then that no).

I am considering to utilise https://steemconnect.com in order to join curation trails and auto-vote, because Im getting a bit too attached to steemit, and I could use a little x-mas break...

But Im not sure... Also Im afraid that this attitude against "post promotion services" is like a general attitude in the upper echelon of the steemit echo echo echo system, (the last sentence was a bad joke)...😜

/FF

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     7 years ago 

    It certainly doesn't inhibit further curation, and that's a good point.

    I guess my next question would be, is promoting posts using bots actually harmful to the platform, or are people upset about it because they feel it's unfair in some way?

    If it's not harmful, then it just comes down to personal principles and priorities.

    Some may choose to boost their own accounts based on personal principle of live interaction, some would rather not, and so long as it doesn't hurt anyone or the platform as a whole, meh?

    I could even argue that If someone has a great idea, it could be a disservice to the platform to NOT share those ideas using post promo. Couldn't it be more important to get great content actually seen than not, just because of principle?

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      I guess my next question would be, is promoting posts using bots actually harmful to the platform, or are people upset about it because they feel it's unfair in some way?

      I don't know Im not that kind of person, but I could guess people who have been "grinding it away" here for a few years, building connections, teams and such might get a bit "salty" when they see new users pushing their articles to thousands of steemians with resteeming services...?

      The only harmfulness would be "dysfunctional resteeming providers" who "over charge" and only have bot followers so I guess you have to watch out for those. I usually I don't make a super positive ROI when I use a whole bunch of resteeming services, but at least I get my article seen/read/upvoted by some more people, and in the long run I guess its "brand promotion" so the ROI might be a positive in the long run anyway...

      I could even argue that If someone has a great idea, it could be a disservice to the platform to NOT share those ideas using post promo. Couldn't it be more important to get great content actually seen than not, just because of principle?

      I agree, principles are only good if they make sense...
      Thanks for your comment.

      /FF