RE: I Don't Want to Write for Bots that Don't Consider Content. Response to @dantheman latest voting/curation post.
Still I don't like the idea that a bot will decide if you write a good and interesting content or not. Humans are unpredictable and bots will be using common traits for rating content as good and soon there will be people exploiting these with crap content that earns a lot.
We actually need more real people to help bring up the good content and encourage the good writers to continue writing quality content. People that like to write also do it for the feedback that they get from the readers. I like to share my extensive experience and knowledge in various areas when I know that it might help somebody, but if bots are deciding that my content is not good and there are no actual people reading it... I'll just stop writing and that is it.
I'm not writing interesting and useful unique content so that it will help steemit get new users from Google, I do like steemit to grow and become better, but I also write for the people that are already here and not for bots. I can as easily write elsewhere and make more than I'm currently earning on steemit, so obviously I'm not doing it for the money, but I don't want to do it for bots either.
I'm really on the same page with you! I way prefer a human curator for multiple reasons.
I just see the bots occurring regardless of my preference.
@thecryptofiend , ran out of nesting spots...
I hear you there.
Beyond that I would think that a curator by hand should be rewarded in some way by taking the personalized/human time and effort. Unfortunately I can't think of a way this could be effectively monitored for long if tried.
If I had the know how to become a witness I'd run on the proviso that I would use all the cash raised to power up and curate content properly without a bot.