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RE: How Do You Explain Upvote Bots to Potential New Members?
Yeah, it's like explaining prostitution to a toddler. Awkward.
Steemit, Inc. could avoid this disappointment by showing a different type of front page. But maybe they like to show big numbers in order to attract new users?
I try to explain that it's a miracle that Steem works at all - at least well enough that bona fide users are able to posts blogs and follow people they're interested in. Game theory would predict that a system rewarding users for upvotes would be overwhelmed by spam, plagiarism and profit-seeking. Steem isn't nearly as bad as Bitcoiners who looked at it once think it is.
Hilarious :'D
A different type of front page would be nice, but you'd still have the issue that post ranking is determined by vote sizes. I guess they filter out bot-upvoted posts, but that would also turn them against their largest investors.
I do agree that for being a completely different approach to social media, Steemit does work incredibly well. It's completely normal that we have these sorts of issues, since it's a stake-based voting system after all. My biggest 'complaint' is the lack of a roadmap regarding the voting bot issue, I would assume that this isn't exactly intended behavior.
I agree, the voting bots have too much power at the moment. Another way to improve the front page would be to weigh votes by UserAuthority, a new kind of reputation score that was just launched.
LOL, I choked when I read this... but it is completely true!