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RE: If You're Autovoting Me, Stop
I understand your frustration. I don’t think that autovotes are the problem. From my humble point of view tthe bigger autovote I am receiving the more motivated I am to create a contributive content. Maybe I create shit and maybe I deserve the autovote. Maybe if the whales were autovoting, but reading the content and possibly re-evaluating their past "autovote decisions" Steem would be a better place...Maybe we will one day reach such a state.
Anyway blame the people not the tools:) Be a better example and maybe we will one day be the cause of the change...the new Steem whales that have different, morally more justifiable approach...and maybe not...
Thanks for offering a differing point of view. I'm about to head out soon, so I'll get back to you later, but I do think that autovotes also breed complacency.
However, I do appreciate that you could be right and they may have a different effect on others.
Sure take your time and if you want to discuss the matter further more Im up for it.
I agree with your take, @fingersik. I really appreciate both having autovoters who support me, and the ability to autovote others. I don't have very many autovoters, but the few I do have value my content and want to upvote it even when they are not able to read it. Once you have so many people you are following, it's nearly impossible to get to every single person's post every day, so I appreciate the ability to autovote others whose content I've found consistently valuable. If someone who I autovote starts posting crap, I'll stop autovoting, and I expect my autovoters to do the same if I all of a sudden just start smearing shit across their feeds. Knowing I have the few autovoters that I do makes it that much important for me to make sure I'm contributing high quality content to the platform. And it has the added benefit of keeping me posting even through times of low activity on the platform. I think the ability to autovote is a net benefit to Steemit.
And I think you're wrong, @schattenjaeger, that the platform is not growing or that it's only attracting bottom of the barrel usership. In my local community, I've recently met five people who had heard of Steemit and had either joined or were planning to join. It was really exciting to see Steemit catching on without me being the megaphone holder, lol. But I was able to help those people with their questions and upvote their first posts. It feels good!
Yea not much to discuss here. We obviously fully agree with each other:P