Hi @stef1, you touch on an argument I have been making since early 2017: You don't build communities with code and bots, you build them with people.

When you end up with too many automated services or "trails" determining everything, you effectively stop having a social content site, you just an investment. What's the point in trying to be an authentic content creator, artist, creative or blogger if the outcome of everyone's efforts is already determined by automation? And why would anyone new want to become part of that if the true purpose effectively is "I can park 1000 € here and it grows by itself, with no input from me."

That's fine if it's the stated up-front point of the venue... and on that basis I choose to take my efforts somewhere else.

Some small part of me is still looking for the early promise held by the Steem community.