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RE: Botland
The sad thing about it all is that the devs seem to be ok with current situation. Steemit just highly rewards bid bots and low quality - high quantity content right now. I just wrote about how the social aspect it totally going away and how real upvotes become harder to get because the system rewards extremely selfish behavior including some solutions. [Link]. I'm affraid steemit needs to be near death before something fundamentally changes, my hopes are more on @dan with the steemit competitor he's planning to make.
An essential misunderstanding that has contributed to the present problem is that quality of content is presumed to be the driver of a quality social media platform, when it is actually the quality of social relations that is the determinant factor. Monetary rewards has proved enormously beneficial to social relation quality, and has produced a platform with suprisingly few trolls and superb engagement by tapping into the power of a gift economy and creating a means of gifting without decreasing the holdings of the giver.
However, the ROI of stakeholders is the actual metric that rules Steemit, and Steem, presently. The social media aspect of the platform is merely justification and cover for the Steem mining function that keeps the whales feeding Stinc and the top witnesses. Stake-weighting is the essential mechanism that ensures this.
Were the social media to be the focus of the platform, investors (as whales prefer to be called, obfuscating the ninjamine that generated most of their stakes) would be dependent on capital gains for their rewards. Since but few of them have any experience actually investing, this is a scary thought.
@dan may have learned from Steemit how to avoid this problem. If Stake is allowed to weight VP on his new creation, he will but create another cryptomining application, rather than a social media platform. I'm not overly confident a social media platform is his actual purpose.
Like everyone else, he is responsible for his personal situation in life, and I expect to see that reflected in his work. I would love to be pleasantly surprised. I'm not going to bother to invest my emotional well being in hope things will be otherwise though.
Thanks for the long reply valued-customer !
You actually make a very valid point and it made me change my mind on how I see things. Steemit indeed succeeds in creating a social platform without all the negativity that often comes with the other social media platforms. It's really hard to get a good grip on how to properly see things on this new kind of platform, but something I really enjoy thinking about.