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RE: I have Unfollowed Everyone, Stopped My Bot Voting As Well
I think that bots have created a major issue on Steemit. As I’ve said before, Steemit is constantly touted as a platform where you get paid and the best content receives the most. This simply cannot be true when bots auto upvote some posters to hundreds of dollars within seconds of the post going live and without any human having read it. That is not how curation should work. However, bots are used and to an extent, do work, so people will continue to use them.
(I have used upvote bots previously but do not currently do so).
I remember a while back Ned (I think) wrote a whole thing about how bots would be a good thing because they'd evolve to evaluate the content themselves and upvote good content.
That's why it's there/allowed. (And, well, it would probably be nearly impossible to actually prevent...)
But the reality is that no, bots are not going to be reading/evaluating content pretty much ever. That's the kind of thing Google is probably working on, and decades away from accomplishing. Self-driving cars are easier, you just have to avoid objects. (He said oversimplifyingly.)
I agree. Bots are hard to prevent but don’t add anything and are not going to be able to curate to the degree a human can.
If a bit can evaluate good content it can also create content, so it will just be a platform of bots writing and curating articles!!
Advertising.
Bots are not there to evaluate good content. They are there for circlejerking
They are used for advertising which I am okay with but I don't like the lack of transparency that gets the newbies led astray.