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RE: Steemit Meetup in Hollywood, California!
Thanks @twirble. I also like to do my voting manually. And I've never been into using bots either. I still plan to go to the L.A. meetups. I definitely had tons of fun meeting all the other Steemians! And I'm sure the presentations will probably get better over time.
I do not mind bots per se. I signed up for minnowsupport and sometimes use various bots to boost my post if I spent a lot of work on it and no one notices it. It is all about how you use it. When people use bots on posts they put little to not effort on it is extreemly annoying.
Agreed 100%. I actually just started using minnowsupport on a few posts here recently, but that's all I have in bot experience. I don't really mind them when they are used decently and not abused, I just don't feel right about using them myself. It just kinda feels like cheating to me. But I guess it's part of the game now, so... who knows how I'll feel about it a week or 2 from now. Just have to keep rollin' with the punches. lol.
Some have said that until the issue of the bots is dealt with, it is better for the community to use bots for quality contend you put hard work into. So, if you have confidence your work is quality, you are helping out the entire steemit community by using a bot to upvote it. Always lots to research on here before I can form firm opinions however.
Yup. I've heard that argument and it's a good one that I'd have to agree with. I just don't see bots being able to be dealt with. I think they're probably here to stay. I wouldn't even know where to start with that. Do you know of any proposals for solutions to bot abuse? How could they do that while maintaining the decentralized nature of Steemit? ...we live in interesting times... lol.