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RE: Changes to Steemit Upvote Ecology
I am pretty new to this platform and do not have a tech/IT mind at all. It seems to me that having bots to upvote posts favors the technologically savvy or the deep pockets that fund these bots regardless of the quality of the content. At such it is no longer a meritocratic system whereby hard work and quality content determine your place in the food chain, but it just replicates the oligarchic structure of the "real world". I may be off, but if I am not, does it beg the questions: Should bots be booted from this space? Is Steemit to be a social experiment of an idealist nature or just another way to make a handful of people rich?
Some interesting ideas. If all are to be equal then there shouldnt be upvote bots, but I think rewarding people for acting well in the past helps encourage and incentivize participating on steem.
I totally agree with you about rewarding people who have acted well in the past and incentivizing participation. We all want to see the fruit of our labor, but the problem comes in when it is not a level playing field. Perhaps it is more about equitability, where everyone gets a fair shot, than equality, since some people are better shots than others (I'm not even sure that equality even exists or is possible). That the upvote of an individual who contributes hight quality content, resources, or sheer hard work (and I know this platform doesn't run itself) be weighted according to his/her contribution is totally fair. It makes perfect sense to me that the upvote of an end-user such as myself have a lower value. I am sure that algorithms determine the "weight", or "value" of each user are already in place. Without the bots, the platform would develop in a much more organic way, a little like nature that is allowed to take its course, as opposed to industrial farming which may initially yield monster crops but actually interferes with nature, contributes to malnutrition and inches us ever closer to the demise of the planet. I would like to see Steemit succeed, but am afraid that the bots (interesting name, by the way) carry within them the seeds of an eventual destruction of this platform.
yea idk if bots are really the problems since the value behind them represents money/work, but their are a lot of problems particularly the constantly shifting value that distorts incentives