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RE: Whales - Can the community buy out a portion of your influence?
If they were motivated by profit they would not bring so much crap to the top.
I think they are motivated by short term profit over the well being and popularity of the platform leading to long term profit.
I addressed this point here. It's important to remember that we're looking at first generation bots. In the long run, the bots that succeed will be the ones that promote steem's long term value. A short list of things bots can do that human curators can't/won't:
Of course there's more, but hopefully that gets the point across.
Whether it does it well or not at this point, I can tell you that the goal behind my own bot is to help raise steem's price by finding and supporting quality content. Curation rewards are a secondary consideration.
Update:* Reading through remaining comments. Up above, you asked about the early voting penalty before 30 minutes, and I don't think anyone answered. I couldn't respond to that comment because of the nesting limit, so here's a link - https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptomental/steem-internals-10-payment-reward-system-demystified