RE: Bribe-A-Bots. Are they worth it?
I find the bots good as you got at least a chance to stay more than 3 seconds on the wall:
This are posts published in the past 15 seconds. One normal new user will not have the slighties chance to be seen in the see of spam generated.
You either buy at the start your way in or know somebody that helps you, else it will take months of interaction till you start to get some relevance on the site.
Also there are investors who don't have time to curate and like the concept, they would rather invest the money so that it generates a cahsflow. Bots are good for that. They will not destroy steemit, are just a part of it. Some will die like bellyrub did this week, some will help the authors to get visbility. The only factor that affects steemit is the human greed.
Ah yes, the three seconds of fame. Three seconds on the trending wall could gain you a few views, possible upvotes maybe even a follower. But there is usually little to no engagement.
It takes months of consistent curation and commenting to build a following, then it takes months of consistent content generation. Personally, I find it entertaining and enjoyable and to a certain extent profitable. And I enjoy the people here. Are they being phony and nice to try to get upvotes? If I were a whale, maybe. But my upvote is tumbleweed.
My theory is that there is not enough monetary incentive (at least right now) to justify the time it takes to make enough money to satisfy human greed. Maybe for the whales, but for most people here, no way. Most people here are blogging for different reasons.
Thank you for your insightful comment.
@ironshield
The incetive can grow if the demand of Steem grows. This can grow with influx of money from outside from investors. The bots investment can attract investors. Steemit needs to make it attractive in some way for people to put money in.
The trending system is tricky, if one manages to come into trending a couple of times in a week will be added to the autovotes from whales as they target curation, the so called circle jerks.
There are some good content creators that use the bots to accelerate the process from months to weeks. I see nothing wrong with it especially for the ones that are good.
With the bottracker some bots will be killed, like bellyrub this days as the maximum earnings will drop to 75% of the vote value. This is good. We will see some direct vote selling from big whales, not directly from bots. Would this be ok? Bots are not bad or good, they are tools in here. The humans make the system and abuse it.
Some will not have the time to curate. I have to pledge guilty on this as I took some favourite accounts and vote them on time for perfect curation and only after I check what I have voted. Sometimes I remove the vote if I don't like the content.
Thank you for the reply. :)