RE: 1 step back, 2 steps forward? - Vote buying question and Trending [ part repost ]
I used boots for a few situations, but mostly I abstained, and I have been a bit vocal about my disdain for the overwhelming trend of bots on the platform.
If the whales supporting the bots are finally repealing the bots, it probably has to do with them not earning enough $ or the fact that Steem prices have dropped (and they're not earning as much money). Or maybe they all learned at SF2 that the pulse of the everyday Steemit user feels a certain level of dislike for bots?
Some bots can be helpful to the community, but unless monitored properly, they can harm the community as well. Since monitoring the bots is a lot of work, and the bots were created to reduce work, they disbanded the bots?
We will probably never know. Unless we see the bots come back online!?!?
The bots are unlikely to go anywhere too fast but, hopefully the vote selling and buying will at the very least change form. Perhaps this will mean that the bots change form also. We will have to wait and see.
Yeah, only time will tell. Some people have put too much time and energy (and possibly money) into creating the vote selling / buying bots to simply let them die forever. Although, it would be nice to see them go away.
Bots don't have a place on a Social Media platform, unless it's to regulate the platform against OTHER bots.. At least that's my view on the situation.
I haven't ventured too far away from my feed lately, so I haven't noticed a lot about these new bots. I did see that randowhale closed down? I had seen several of the bots "shut down" temporarily over the past month, but they always seemed to come back online.. Anyway..
As you said, only time will tell what happens with bots on the platform in the future.
Pretty sure Rando is dead and its owner is going to be doing something much more useful for the platform I hope.