RE: Evening thoughts on bidbot and badbots
Maybe we really will be better off, after all.
I do like the library/burger analogy. It also points to something I tried to point out years ago, that one of Steem's (then "Steemit") biggest problems was, and would continue to be, a lack of self-definition; of identity. It becomes a really difficult "sell" to the greater public (aka "mass adoption") because the different segments not only don't work well together, sometimes their objectives are actually against each other.
The other point I always tried to make (and which fell on deaf ears) is that bid bots are FINE as long as we have honest labeling. Every other social site on the planet openly labels content that has paid for placement as "Promoted/sponsored post," why don't we?
Could it be that "someone" doesn't want to show the reality that actual "created" content actually has relatively little value? I'm cynical...
I still have hope here... although much of it lies in the effect of "Tribes," and then "Communities" when they finally come online, next year.
Yes, that is a very good point: labelling things that has been promoted! I remember some years ago when adds began being made as real articles here in Denmark. There was a large discussion and as consumer protection laws are pretty strict here, all the newspapers started labelling the content. A quite reasonable thing to do.
Also an interesting point about the value of created content. As an artist I have realised that created content actually is very valuable... problem is that it is the easiest thing to leech on.
I think everybody should join in the downvoting efforts to clean this place of unhealthy practises. Maybe not stick your neck too far out (that's me being yelled at and downvoted by one of the bidbots :) , but join the efforts and maybe write about it. Steem was on a downhill slope and I really think everybody should step up and try to get quality "created" content rewarded while bad content should loose out.