RE: So long and thanks for all the fish | a reflexion to the BOT owners and delegators
You are thinking about this all wrong, friend.
The only way to solve the problem...
Would be to stop using the bots altogether
That's not going to happen.
That's not a solution.
That is a fantasy.
I'm truly not trying to be offensive or insulting. You want Steem to be the best that it can be, and that's great!
We have to ask ourselves why people want to buy votes. Why are users willing to allow their hard-earned SBD to get raked by an upvote bot?
The answer is an incredibly flawed trending tab that assumes the highest paid posts are the ones people should be looking at. Therefore, users are spending money to upvote-bots and essentially paying rent to get visibility on the trending tab.
If we want to stop people from buying votes, we "simply" need to make better trending tabs that curates content more intelligently than what Steemit has to offer.
If we want to eliminate upvote bots that are raking a fee off the top, we need to make a decentralized market where anyone can sell their vote to anyone else using a service that takes no such rake.
In effect, we have to wait for developers to come to their senses and stop trying to make products that leech the reward pool by monetizing their product.
If it's not open source and decentralized, the product has very little value to the Steem ecosystem.
We need to find more ways to reward selfless programmers who are working for "free" while at the same time punishing developers looking to exploit the platform for short-term gains.
When it really comes down to it, so called "content" here is free, with an option for tipping.
If we want whales to buy what we are selling, payment must be forced.
That's why projects like @steemmonsters and @drugwars have done so well.
Blogging is simply the sad pilot episode of the Steem blockchain.
I am sooo sad to agree... That is why i close my post with a quote from Lennon's imagine...
The trending issue comes from the bullshit we where fed to justify vote selling in the first place... Get noticed so you can get bigger upvotes...
To me the root of the problem was the availability of free easy to install code to make a bot... git install postpromoter
That was the root, because when there was only MB and Booster selling votes there was SP hunting stuff to curate, just that is also a huge effort and the reward was not enough, hence the reason all went to bidbots.
If instead of delegations accounts follow voted curators they would not be renouncing to the rewards and that would be profitable with 0 effort, but the times when selling a vote was a mortal sin are long gone.
This place is today the result of what we made it... I don't know why saying that i think of the terminator movies...