Is use of bid-bots unethical? If yes, why this platform allows bid-bots to work?
Some people argue that bid-bots are curse to this platform. According to them it is the raping of the reward pool. It is unethical in their view. On the other hands, many witnesses are the owner of bid-bots. If bid-bots are bad, then who should be the guilty party? The user or the bot owner? Why user should be culprit if the Steem platform doesn't ban bid-bots?
There is two sides to this issue. The good and bad side.
The fight against bidbots is due to the fact that many posts that are of little or no value often find themselves at trending page or having huge rewards which should not be so. That is the bad side.
Now the good side, some innovations need to be boosted so everyone can see it which will pitch it to investors.
Coming to who to blame if it's the user or bot owner. I will say both are to be blamed. The user promoting sub-par post for his or her own personal gain andtl the bot owner not vetting posts submitted. Steemit is decentralised and ban on bid bots means negating that decentralisation.
Now what is been done to make sure bidbots are used positively. Some bidbots owner such as @smarsteem owned by @therealwolf has other parts @smartmarket that whitelist users based on their original posts and credibility. @minnowbooster is also another bot that has a whitelist.
This are some of the steps been taking to ensure positive usage of bidbots and it has been successful.
There are both ethical and unethical side of using bid bots. It depends on users how they will use it.
Let's talk about unethical side first.
You will see there are some users on this platform sharing very low quality content which doesn't add any value to the platform. But still they have plenty of rewards in there posts. They are just using bid-bots on their post. It can be said that, they are stealing from reward pool as they are adding nothing to the platform but getting many.
Let's talk about ethical side now.
Bid-bots are brought in place of promote. You can see a promote option below of your post. By sending sbd you can promote your post. But this promotion doesn't ever cover half of the spend money. Then bid-bots came and now a good content creator can boost his post through bid-bots and it gets more influence than that promotion option.
Without these bid-bots also have blacklist and whitelist. The user who continuously share low quality content and keep using bid-bots on them, get blacklisted by the bot owner.And this system is getting more optimized day by day.
In this world everything has a good and a bad side. You can cut fruits by a knife and can also kill a people with it. It will depend on you, how you will use it.
Maybe I err - but my point of view on Bid-Bots:
As far as I know from beginning of Steemit.com in 2016 far over 90 percent of the Steemtokens were/are in the hands of the developer and some early birds.
So using Bid-Bots serves smart and active people on Steemit because it enhances the redistribution of the tokens.
Many bots also set certain quality standarts, so they can't be used on scam and spam.
You may say, bid-bots also enhance the inflation of tokens and hurt the Steemprice.
Well, that is true to some extend, but please bear in mind, that there is also the possibillity to destroy Steemtokens and taking them out of the system by transferring them to @null.
So I guess Steemit is a very clever thing :-)
The cumulation of most of Steemtokens in the hand of a few people also gurantees the quality standarts and longlivity of Steemit if they handle their property well.
Bidbots make it possible to gain more visibility and also more income on your post.
I guess it is with bid-bots like with everything in life: Use it but do not abuse it.
As long as they are tolerated by the developers, it is just clever to use them to build up a good Steempower and a strong account.
As there are various bots for all ranges of SBD even newbies can make profit as there are some already starting at 0.001 SBD and so you can grow a strong account out of nothing with just work and time.
I wish you all the best :-)
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Hello @Akdx,
@zoneboy and @futuremind already answered the bid bot part, but I felt like I need to answer the 2nd part of your question better:
"Why does the platform allow bidbots".
Well, it has to do with what the platform is: a Decentralized Blockchain.
If we were on a centralized platform, there would be an administration running things, banning and allowing features left and right.
However, this is a decentralized platform (the Steem Blockchain) so there's no administration banning stuff.
Sure, witnesses with a consensus could do it if they wanted to, but even if they all wanted to it would be counter-intuitive since the attractiveness of the blockchain is decentralization, which means people here expect not to have their freedoms limited - like by bans and getting their actions to be prohibited.
Cheers
I believe that the steemit platform allows bid-bots to be
used because bid-bots has its advantages on the platform though it also has some features which some
people do abuse and make it have negative effect on steemit,bid-bots are good tools that can be used to
promote a content on steemit,there are some users that have good contents but they do not get the visibility
which they really desire and want and that is why bid-bots can be useful for someone on steemit....the reason
why many people believe that using bid-bots are unethical because so many spammers now take
advantage of bid bots by using the bid bots to upvote their spammy contents and earn undeserved rewards....i believe that bid-bots can still be used on the steemit
platform but the only steps that should be taken is that there should be a creative way to ensure that it would be more difficult for a spammer to use bid-bots or it
would be unprofitable for them and i believe that the new steemit hardfork will solve all that...
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