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RE: Epic Reward Pool Rapist @Grumpycat Unveils Fascist Roadmap

in #steemit7 years ago

"This sickens me, sub par content getting 300+"

Do you get sickened when you see an ad at the top of a Google result? I bet not. Your envy is what sickens you. You can purchase votes too if you wish to promote an article. Don't let envy make you twisted and bitter.

"Buying votes its like self calling you blogger of the year."

No, it's not like that at all. It's exactly like advertising, you know paying for exposure.

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Yes!!! You are a commercial on television. I just hit fast forward. It's a dying business model.

Those minnows buying votes aren't getting exposure! It's a scam! You're simply regurgitating their narrative as if you're the PR manager.

9 out of 10 doctors prefer Camels brand cigarettes!

I read your comments here and I like how you think, seems like we are on the same boat. Started following just for the sake of reading your content. Happy new year.

I'd much rather be busy working on my own things today. After watching these people battle it out for so long about who's version of doing things the wrong way is the best way to do things the wrong way, I guess I had had enough.

Happy new year to you as well.

Well this is definitely a good thing to come out of it, Eric is awesome:)

Aw, two of my top favorite people on steemit meeting for the first time, makes the bad stuff going on not matter so much.
(My first day really back :)

Do you really want this place to be pay to play? Steem has so much potential and this type of thinking is what is preventing it from being actualized. I'm a bit of an idealist really. Something romantic about a platform where, in theory, everybody has an equal voice and authors are rewarded on the basis of QUALITY! If you create quality, you will be rewarded. Sounds good in theory but where did we go wrong?

I, for one, have said it once and said it again that I have ABSOLUTELY no scruple with a 0 SP user making a hundred dollar reward if they produced something exceptional.

But the problem here is you have a slew of scammers that are getting rewarded through employing "advertising" services for nothing exceptional. It's a damn shame but it is quite reassuring to see more people that think like I do being more vocal about this issue.

What if you could pay a "service" to give likes to your Facebook post? Perhaps, there is and I wonder how you would feel about that. These tricks are used to confer to the material an artificial quality, perhaps a semblance of quality or popularity but, more often than not, it's just hype. We have reduced a potentially much more inspired blogging community to a sick sort of cash grab for those that whore themselves to (deceptive) marketing tools.

  1. Propose system which would work better.
  2. Implement it.

In the process of creating something that will help through incentivization of good flags and have started a no self voted promotion service. These things may help but to effect significant change in the current design would require a change of heart from the top down.

But how does one convince the one that has the gold egg-laying chicken to give it up for the greater good and therein lies the problem. If one bid bot stops, they are going to go to another.

If the community were to get behind an antibidbot (one that targets posts stilted up on paid upvotes), then there may be hope yet. There are also a less drastic approach I am considering and that is we create a new Steem front end that specifically filters out self voted and bid botted posts. They can play in their own echo chamber. We don't have to play ball. We just need o collectively opt out of supporting them and I believe things will change.

@br0, I'll keep on keeping on. If we all work together, we can change this place for the better. I'll do what I can

Don´t take it personally man, I´ve seen your content and it is good, but this post is highly overvalued. And not overvalued by organic votes (which then the community is the one deciding it adds value to the platform) but by bidbot votes.

Yeah, I get sickened by toutube adds not letting me watch a video, i get sickened by google shoving up my face a plane ticket to a place I googled, I get sickened by Facebook telling me to like something based on my conversation key words. So yeah, I get sickened by paid content on steemit, which is supposed to be free of all the centralized agenda from mayor websites.

I don´t feel envious, this comment as I said is not personal, If i wanted I could use bidbots on every post of mine and get them not to 300 but to 600, but i dont do it because if the community is not ovoting them high enough, perhaps it does not deserve to be up there, dont you think?

I know you don´t use them a lot (bidbots) and I´m actually not against using once in a while on e of them to give some visibility to the content or the message you are trying to get through, but to use 6 of them and get it to 300? Damn, you could use one and get it to 80 and this comment wouldn´t even be here.

If you want to advertise or pay for exposure, that is why the "promoted" tab is there, to pay for exposure. Bidbots (for good or bad, I´m not the one to tell) are just a way of rigging the system.

Promoted doesnt work. Because you know< promoted content should be on the same feed like ordinary one, but Steemit Inc. never heard about it.
And so we have bidbots.

The bidbots and purchased delegation are being used my many people to take advantage of the SBD bonanza at the moment. I am not saying it's happening in this case but I know of other people that are doing this.

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