RE: Curation Bot’s - Race to the bottom - The Impending BOT Armageddon!!!
I agree with a lot of what @dantheman has been posting too. Following and upvoting posts that bots upvote may help you make a little money, but it doesn't curate good content. There's an interesting thread about this elsewhere from last night by @stellabelle. I think you can still find it in Trending. We have a flood of new content coming in and it seems many minnows have given up on curation because there's no financial reward for them. The remaining people curating for profit can't keep up with the content. So a lot of good content is never discovered and promoted. I hope that the bots neutralize themselves, because honestly I don't think they add to identifying quality content. They also won't help in the growth of the steemit community. Great post Olllie.
I've read discussion @stellabelle too. I feel that 2 things are problematic. 1. human nature and greed, we can't fix that, but we can remove curation rewards. Lots of suggestions on @stellabelle post was constructive ways for minnows to take part in the community and earn money, to some extent like DASH finances its development.
Some revolutionary steps will have to be take place in order to satisfy all the appetites.
@leksimus I agree. With all of the users and content being added to steemit, curation is necessary to separate the wheat from the chaff. But some significant changes will have to be made to the curation function to motivate and reward curators to perform that function. I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's good to see various discussions.