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RE: 'Curation Trail' vs "Promoted post" an ethical dilemma...
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?
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 agree, principles are only good if they make sense...
Thanks for your comment.
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