RE: I Feel Broken: Probably a Bad Time to Take a Break
Bid bots are a problem, will it get better, I don't know, but people can choose not to use them. Of concern lately is the increasing number of allowable tags on some sites. This is also not going to do the real content creators any good. This is also going to hurt the ability of people to find content they are interested in.
Steempeak has increased the number of tags allowed. I feel that the tags should still be limited to just the 5 tags, but with the growing number of communities some of them want more tags to be available, all that is going to do is mean that the money hunters will be able to tag all the communities and never have to use a tag that will indicate what their post is about.
Pretty soon, tags like #Fiction, #Writing, #Painting, #Funny, or any of the other batch of tags I rarely use will be empty, maybe then one day I can write a poem and have it show as the one sole entry on the Trending page for #Poetry.
So this may not be a bad thing for the content hunter. It should make it pretty easy to find categorized content, problem is when they start allowing more and more and more tags to be used. Soon the highest bid bot payee will be able to brag about being on the trending tab in 8, (or more) categories instead of just 5.
If people realized they'd make more if they didn't shit post and tag spam nonsense, do it right, life would be good. They shoot themselves in the foot. I'll downvote the junk and I don't mind if they lose more than they bargained for, because learning is tons of fun, for everyone.
Sometimes it takes a few hard knocks before people learn. Such is life. I do hope that not all the scot-tribes increase the number of allowable tags, I looked at #newsteem tag trending not a single one of the first 5 trending post have #newsteem as the first tag.
If steemit, and if the scot-tribes want a real trending page, then the post need to be based on the first tag, not the second, third or last tag as an after thought. If Someone wants to be on the trending page of #Fiction, #art, or any of the other tags, then that should be their first tag, that and only that tag is what the trending page of a tag should represent.
I doubt that there are any specific tag Trending pages that the first five post even show the specific tag for that trending page as the first tag of choice. If that makes any sense
I just want to be able to tag properly, and select which tribes are relevant. Normally I wouldn't be able to legitimately pull off four tribes like this. It's all relevant though. Speaking about the arts, to the art community, and the struggles of being an artist that needs eyes to succeed, and how talent gets flushed down the toilet on Steemit and replaced with nonsense a lot of the times. Business and investing because there's so much damn money on the line here. Entertainment is a huge draw and these investors need to see the potential. Then two added variety for extra visibility since I'm organic and there's no way in hell I'm allowing someone to profit from my work beyond their respectable level of curation reward which I understand is necessary and support 100%.
You make sense though. Simpler organization that works.