RE: Bid-bot activity report -- 02/12/18 for previous 7 days. Who's paying the most to promote their articles?
As a plankton/minnow who has been having to pay attention to this sort of dynamic since the day I got here, what is striking to me is how little alternative choice one really has given the state of development and the tools that are available currently. Any new poster with little following is faced with two really cruddy choices. You work on a post and then either:
a) Post and have it buried nearly immediately into the sea of garbage largely unnoticed OR
b) Take the risk that what you posted is actually of some value, engage with one or more bid bots and perpetuate a system already pretty broken
There may be other choices out there, but when the only "sort tabs" are New (disappear down the scroll literally in the time it takes to be posted up) Hot/Trending (places where the big bots and the well known names / circle supporting whales dominate) or Promoted (which truth be told, I cannot figure out if this is a "good deal" or not as there just seems to be too little information out there) - the new plankton/minnow is stuck between pretty untenable positions at least for now.
I find myself hoping that as new / better alternative tools and interfaces come on line, there may be some better ways through these waters, but for now it really is a place where the needs for the blockchain to expand and be supported is being simultaneously undermined by this dynamic.
You nailed this one @genxrev.
I posted an article a couple weeks back that wee need "sort tags". The UI really needs a bit of upgrade at this point. To be fair it is still "beta".
I posted this info so EVERYONE can see what they are up against and why their works are being largely ignored.
Hope it helps. You can reach out to the community and let them know the problem. One way to fix it is to use the bidbots so much as it simply is not profitable for anyone.
Hope you'll resteem this so we can some public awareness.
You can make comments. I feel bad when new people make amazing posts that nobody even sees. My first few posts I did were very simple.
Absolutely agree... my response above was thinking of things for the perspective of someone trying to create their own content, but I WHOLLY agree... posting thoughtful comments, joining in other people’s posts and being a contributor to other people’s thoughts really need s to be an avenue of parallel development for a newbie. I’d say a good chunk of those who’ve decided to follow me have come only after I’ve engaged with comments. I think it really is an sue of “simultaneous”development - both are needful if one is seeking to create content.... there may be other better ways forward if one is wanting to focus on curation, but that’s not where my thought trail has me thinking right now. Thanks for your insight.