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RE: Why I won't be using bidbots again
I think all people—bot owners and bot users—should take a hard look, much like you did, at what they're actually accomplishing. Are they achieving some kind of measurable metric. Are the bots really helping as far as advertising or even curation. Or are the bots just basically getting more powerful themselves?
We need more and more information, pros and cons, and we really should get some of the answers from the bot owners and the bot users, instead of it always being a community initiative.
You can find out all these details from looking up the post author's username on steemd.com and steemdb.com - but it's time-consuming! The community services make it much easier to track, although @botreporter doesn't take into account the 25% curation rewards in its list, so in a way the profits for users look greater than they actually are. It's definitely the bot owners who profit the most.
Are bid bots the first incarnation of SkyNet? They do seem to be rather self-serving. Is @byColeman the John Connor of our time?
Always a chance. From bid bot to Terminator in five easy steps! However, byColeman et al are doing some pretty good work here of late. The more we know the better.
My guess, though, is that the bid bots actually turn into the replicating metal bugs that popped up during the original Stargate TV series, SG-1. Not sure how the bid bots end up in space far far away, but basically using up all the resources around them and then moving onto other worlds throughout the galaxy is more of how I see the bid bots. :)
Like Unicron - devouring all before them
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