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RE: Rethinking The Position of Upvote Bots in the Steem Ecosystem (without SMTs)
Nobody offers a service out of the goodness of their heart.(in 99.9999% of cases)
People would do well to think about services such as randowhale. Now I'm not saying they're crooked or anything like that, what I am saying is all these services are asking for you to pay [something] for the resteem, lucky dip vote etc, you may well earn a couple of dollars out of it but they will be earning far more. Also, as has been pointed out, it encourages people to produce low quality bilge that takes little to no effort to produce with usually a 4 - 1 return ratio by using an upvote service.
There are people comprising their earnings by flagging spam here. This platform has massive potential and some want to try and stop it filling with trash
I'm not sure there's anyone wilfully trying to "stop it" (I suspect you mean kill it off?) there is, however, a large portion who could kill it off by their selfish greed. In fact, there's also an element who unwittingly harm Steemit by their actions simply because they do not understand the whole ecosystem of Steem, Steemit and Steemians.
I meant people can deter bad content by flagging to zero value. The whales have that power and an interest in Steemit gaining credibility /value. It's all a big experiment