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RE: Why is no whale following DTubes curation trail? // Exclusive DTube Video 276
@stackin is 100% right!
People with high voting power see Steem as an investment... and they get a better return on investment (ROI) by selling their votes to bidbots or the smartmarket. Ironically, the decreases the value of their investment because it means quality content doesn't get upvoted, which means, quality creators don't bother, which means consumers don't come to Steem because the quality isn't there. Selling to bidbots is a classic short-term gain, long-term pain play.
The other reason is that for maximizing curation, you want to get in before a big vote, not after it. I think that's why Kpine predominately followed people consistently getting the dtube upvote.
I'm not sure I agree here:
Bid-bots became popular on Steemit because the curation incentive structure was very flawed. As a result, nobody with any amount of voting power would spend countless hours finding and curating the quality authors. People have better things to do in their lives than spend 5-6 hours per day on Steemit trying to time their votes on posts they liked so they can earn off curation. Nobody is going to do that!!
The bots filled a gaping hole in Steemit, and in the process crated sustained ROI and demand for the Steem token.
I totally get what you're saying... but if time was purely the issue, then people would follow the Dtube and Curie curation trails and effectively delegate their voting power to others.
Instead of supporting quality content with lifts the whole platform, they're selling their voting power to the highest bidder in order to earn liquid Steem.
I personally think that everyone who cares about the platform should either manually curate the type of content they want the platform to excel at, or autovote the curation trails of people/communities who curate the type of content they like.
Bid-bots (with the exception of @ocdb) are only good for making their owners money.