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RE: A look at transparency and hiding beneath the surface
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.