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RE: Vote Bot Takeover Musings & Open Forum - What Would You Like Me To Write About?
I totally agree with you! I think this bot culture is also demoralizing for new people who join the platform and spend their time creating content as they don't stand much chance of trending (and being seen by bigger audience). I would love to write more content on the platform, but there is not much point if it is going to be buried under pile of s*** posts within seconds :)
I agree. If you don't have a big following, no one will see your post. I have a lot of quality posts I would like to write, but I won't waste them when I still have less than 500 followers and few that read/comment on the posts I do have. My strategy has been to do great curation/commenting and support quality posts to help them get an audience and those I follow because of their quality posts. Eventually, I'll have a big enough following, say 1,000 where it makes sense to start posting my quality topics I think people could be interested in.
I also don't pay for or otherwise use voting bots. I'm a purest and it just seems like cheating.
Your strategy sounds good for the whole Steemit ecosystem. It is important to reward people who put a lot of work in their content. By supporting other authors whilst you build your own follower base and by making valuable contribution through your comments you are creating a more positive culture. Hopefully people will watch and learn. I will look out for posts from you :)