RE: Just another day on Steemit, why I feel helpless.
The bid-vote bots are being abused, end of story. Who is to be held accountable? Steemit inc? The Code? Witnesses? Ned? How about the enablers or owners of said "vote bots" who are raking in huge sums of Steem/SBD in exchange for votes and then complaining about having to clean up the mess THEY helped create, with those same votes? I have no sympathy for you markymark.
This bid-vote bot business is a huge can of worms since it's now universally condoned as well as actively being used by our witnesses. The same witnesses who are now not only running these "abuse-farms" but are also (in effort to curb abuse...only) encouraging EVERYONE else (no scammers though, please!!!) to use these vote bots now so it will be less profitable for the REAL scammers?
Lol... WTF has this place turned into?... A ROI vote business...? How about a return on quality content and organic following? BUT it's not fair?! I get the fact that if you didn't (run these bots yourself),most likely several malevolent actors would (and likely do already) do the same, but does that make it right or even remotely the best solution?
Well said, it's the system. When the system allows for abuse there will be.
I thought I read somewhere that Steemit is supposed to be a commercial-free platform. Is promoting through bot-votes the same as a commercial? What if all bot-promoted posts were highlighted in a different colour, so everybody sees right away, if there is promotion going on?
If that was the case there would not be the option to promote posts and a dedicated tab for promoted posts?
Maybe we don't need the promoted-section anymore since we got bots?
Yeah I don’t think anyone reads that tab