RE: Powered up / Make Steemit great again / switching focus
You're singing my song! Or I'm singing yours. The bots aren't necessary. Time is. Time posting, commenting and curating. The more I read from both sides of this issue the more I am convinced of it.
Flagging does us little accounts little good, but curating, commenting and posting does.
Quality is subjective. Abuse is less so, but with no rules to really govern it accept those who have the will and the power to impose their own, how can you truly say what constitutes abuse?
I believe there are limits, and I believe we should all have our own, but unless someone at Steem Inc. decides to cap post quantity again or cap daily reward earnings, someone is going to keep going after the reward pool, and someone else is going to go after them.
Where does it stop? Where does it end? Only in self-regulation, and I'm afraid while there are people who do just that, there are too many others who regularly prove they're concerned more with self-interest.
Indeed, So we just gotta keep commenting on the good content creators, upvoting them and try to keep them around. Hoping for the change. Steemit Inc has become hyperfocused on the SMT's and nothing will be done in the near term for the platform it seems, but if we hold out long enough, and can keep some quality conent creators around until the HiveMind comes out. Maybe we will win. It is sad thinking that if we win even the abusers win, and since they were abusing, they win more really. Though maybe some accountability will come their way eventually. Some sort of cosmic karma, or something that looks like it.
I'm hoping for Hivemind/Communities to bring some good change, but I don't know. The more I read about it, the less it sounds like what people think they're supposed to be getting. Though I've read quite a few posts on it, I'm not at all clear on how it's supposed to interact with reward pool, as it sounds like accounts can become communities, open or closed (similar to FB) and then somehow the reward pool gets shared.
We shall see. They keep mentioning, though in much less detail than SMTs, but it seems like we get HF 20 with Communities happening either before or after, then SMTs with another HF 21. Having them not get specific with time frames helps not to oversell what they can't reasonably complete, but not having any time frame, while desiring the flexibility to green light projects in place of others if they deem it necessary still leaves a lot of uncertainty. Just can't win I guess. :)