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RE: A look at transparency and hiding beneath the surface
@tarazkp let's not deceive ourselves. There is no transparency on Steemit. Kindly leave those who are using bidbots alone. It is their money and they have a right to spend it anyhow they wish.
If people like you were not more interested in self voting than they are in upvoting good contents from unknown people there would be no need for bid bots. Instead, those with huge SP want people to lick their boots before they upvote, so why will bid bots not thrive?
If bid bots must be stopped then self upvote too must stop. For me, that is the real transparency not the foul cry about innocent people using bid bots.
Regards
Before you go on, I have a paid delegation that I cover the cost of but, I return a lot more into the community than that and have done for a very long time. My delegation costs are fixed, which requires me to cover them regardless of the price of Steem.
Have you had a look at my content? Have you had a look at my comments sections? Have you had a look at the discussions? Now, go and have a look at many of the bidbot voted posts with much higher rewards. They are all drawing from the same pool. Their bought vote on their often low quality, largely useless content is drawing on the pool that the organic, human curators can use to vote on quality content. That pool is where your value comes from too.
This is the thing people keep saying about stake isn't it? Use it as you wish. I ahve earned my stake with a lot of hard work and I wished to upvote a comment from a community service bot. Freedom. I can also use it to flag if I choose.
I agree to some degree but, if you look at the pull on the pool from the bidbots, the manual curators don't have a lot of power anymore. Many of the ones who do delegate to bid bots. What is happening is the destruction of community for short-term profit.
You are entitled to your views, as am I.
Well, it's nice reading your view on this matter. While I am entitled to my opinion as well as you are entitled to yours, let it known that bid bots are not as bad as people make it seem.
I have to go now.
Sellah.
Bid bots are actually truly bad. Aside from the fact that they contribute to draining the pool, they also take money for it.
Maybe you may think this little part of the Wild Wild West (the www) is a short-term money grab but long-term bid bots are detrimental to the platform because they create a lopsided economy which attracts only short-term focused investors. AKA vultures.
If that works for you, that's fine but then you also have to understand that there are people who see a long-term potential value in steem.
We need no apologies, we need a possible future and that requires that the bot situation will at some point be taken care of because eventually bots will be the only ones to distribute rewards as popularity grows. To spread the community reward pool that means.
I appreciate your contrary views. I will respond appropriately when it is time.
The bid bots are even worse than they seem. Not only are they stealing rewards from genuine creators of worthwhile content, they are poisoning the STEEM environment through outright dishonesty. No one wants to play in a dirty sandbox and the bots are working overtime at poisoning the sandbox as well as the STEEM atmosphere.
The failure of technology is that the creators forget that, just because you CAN do something does not mean that it is moral to actually do it.
I understand your concerns, really. I am just surprised that we are making storm out of a teapot
It may be perspective. If you are IN the teapot, the storm takes on a different importance.
That's quite true.
VERY well said. Picking on the minnows is not only 'bully' behavior but also pathetic.
It is even a storm in a tea pot if you ask me.
Yep. Just looking to cause trouble.