RE: STEEM blockchain use cases. // Beyond blogging//... and a million and 1 opinion
I don't hate the people behind the bots and when I talk about the subject, I can be blunt but I'm not dishing out low blows. I feel the business model is flawed and a waste of resources. How they are marketed to the public is also misleading. They make claims they can't backup with facts.
So Joeparys made an advertisement, disguised it as helpful advice. Whatever. It's not that big of a deal. BUT, if people took that so called 'advice', and EVERYONE did as he said, the way the bots work and how they're used to exploit the standings on the trending pages within different tags or ALL tags would fall apart instantly.
Just imagine if 1000 people tried to buy trending status within one half of an hour. Their system can't even handle it, and those spending the money to boost posts would quickly notice their post vanish from the higher ranks. Basically, if the current bot system was to be successful, it falls apart and becomes useless at the exact same time. They can only depend on a handful of people and sell a handful of slots. It's a waste under this current system. I wrote about a far better approach to all of this because I don't have a problem with promotion when it's done properly and when it doesn't interfere with those who are not promoting content.
Some good stuff in there.
Nice write-up, thanks for the mention.
PLUS... a system that deteriorates in to machines-talking-to-machines, apps-talking-to-apps and so forth without a HUMAN factor will eventually become a zero-sum game of ever smaller dust particles. You end up with a frenzy of activity that creates ever less benefit to ANYone, other than to keep some CPUs spinning, somewhere.
Well no, i mentioned you as someone thats active on the issue. Im not saying youre the one doing the demonizing but rather some other people i cant really remember the names of, nor do i wish to ping them here.
Mister Paris is a more mellow and sensible Jerry, and those kinds of content creators always pop up on new platforms. You had them on facebook, youtube and even myspace if i were to go further back.
Trending is broken ofc. There is no denying that, the thing i wanted to point out is that just because the current advertising/trending page relationship isnt the greatest, a fix can happen and while todays "bots" might be seen by the critics as a terrible thing, in the long run the sentiment could change drastically once a proper place for them is found. Thus the proto-advertising definition.
Things will and always do change in the future, but that doesn't mean talking about things now is a waste of time. Part of progress is looking at now so we can prevent possible disasters in the future. Pointing out problems today isn't being shortsighted at all.
Talking isnt a waste of time as long as both sides try and move forward towards change that benefits everyone in question. But, as you have seen on Bernies post a few days ago, things tend to not go in the direction of mutual understanding that lead to solutions that benefit both sides, but rather in the direction "us or them".
And that i do find a waste of time.
That's a situation I decided to ignore, for the right reasons. Those issues seemed to be more personal than anything else, so there's no reason to stick my nose into it or take sides. I could say good things about all involved.