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RE: A look at transparency and hiding beneath the surface

in #steemit7 years ago

If you don't like it and you don't think it belongs on steemit, flag it. Period. This is how steemit users define what is allowed or disallowed on the platform.

YOU have the power to decide whether this bot is useful or not. We can all decide to flag it, or we can all decide we like seeing when people are using upvote bots to artificially boost their content's popularity.

It is important for the sake of transparency to let users know when people have paid to have their content artificially reach the top of the "Trending" list. On any other platform we are informed when something is an advertisement, and it should be no different on steemit.

However, a bot that posts comments may not be the best method of making this happen. Perhaps we can come up with a better alternative.

As it stands currently, however, I see no alternative being presented. So I like this bot FOR NOW. Ideally, in my opinion, posts should not be allowed to reach the top "trending" tag if they have had over a certain threshhold of bots upvoting the content. The reason being because it makes the community think this has been voted on by real people and is good content worth viewing, when in reality it was just paid promotions and should be on the "Promoted" tab, not on the top trending.

But this is a complex topic so we all have to decide together what we want to see on this platform. Remember, we ALL have the power to shape this platform the way we see fit by voting and flagging content.

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However, a bot that posts comments may not be the best method of making this happen. Perhaps we can come up with a better alternative.

I think they will be marked in the future but this is an interim 'solution'. No one user can change the interface.

As it stands currently, however, I see no alternative being presented. So I like this bot FOR NOW.

I should read further... ;)

Remember, we ALL have the power to shape this platform the way we see fit by voting and flagging content.

Yep. The small accounts are waiting for the large to do the work but, they have a lot more power than they realise if they work as part of the community.

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