Thoughts on "auto" curation trail
As far as I know auto vote bot is a good idea for Steemit users that are unable to keep track on their supported author's articles. It actually solve the inactivity when it comes to the curation part.
The other beauty of it is the fact that there are communities or solo curators that are doing a great job when it comes to curating quality contents who set-up a curation trail for everyone to follow. Since scouting for quality contents isn't easy to accomplishment through the platform, there are hardworking communities who tirelessly look through the posts and trying to discover contents that are deserving to be recognized or being largely upvoted.
By following their curation trail, you are basically supporting the communities' goal and indirectly supporting an author's article that is deemed to be of good quality.
Personally, I think that this is best thing that you can do in Steemit if in case you don't have the luxury of time to do it.
Now, what are the downside or possibly the bad effect for this way of curation?
I've read some feedback about it, several months ago, one of the author is basically highlighting the fact that even though the article receive a decent amount of reward and few hundreds of voters (which is considered good in Steemit standard), the article only receive a few comments. Why is that? It means that very few people actually saw the article. And it received very little engagement.
Well, if an author is only here for the reward then that's ok. But for some authors they also want to receive some feedback from the community and possibly engage to them to share their insights to one another.
Like in any other good things that we can have, there will also a downside to it. Even so, I still think that there is more good to it than its bad side.
What do you think about the “auto” curation trail culture that we have in the Steemit platform?
Totally agree with you. Both authors whose content is undervalued, and upvoters who do not have enough time to check and evaluate quality posts are beneficial in this case. I’m always happy to see my posts to receive these big upvotes 😁😁
I was really happy when I recieved my first Curie upvote. They worked mysteriously, no signal, no comment and that happened on my first week in Steemit and so I really can't believe it lol. Those are the good things that a trail can provide to a recipient :)
It's cost effective. Curation costs time to do and it can be a source of small fortune. But's it's not worth doing in this bear market. Without auto curation, the only option for SP to give some returns would be to power it down and sell or have it delegated to a bid bot.
I think people should realize this reality if they are hoping for real engagement. Most engagements actually happen at discord and not on the blockchain.
Good points.
I actually wished Steemit could improve steemit chat or come up to an option where users can engage to other users without leaving the website.
Some important conversations don't need to be necessarily length as an average sentence. There's an advantage to having a chat functionality where people can spam useless chats yet still find the conversation in good spirit. The blockchain isn't suited for this and it would only come off as a spam. Just imagine us trading some one word replies. Steemit chat is a mediocre option compared to discord unfortunately.
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