Why Flagging the "Trending" Trash! Have other solutions...
Hi Steemians
Whenever a war ends an other starts. Thats the case here on Steemit. We are facing many problems at the moments or maybe, because I am new here I am discovering these problems lately.
The major problem seen here is Voting Bots. I personally dont see it as a problem as everybody is using them. It is true they might be supporting a lot of Trash, but they are also supporting new users. If you go on the trending page, you will see mostly whales or dolphins on the top. Minnows wont be on the top of the list even if they use voting bots. Everybody knows how it works! The more you invest, the more you rank higher. Minnows dont have enough SP or enough money to be on the top.
I have a suggestion which might be a solution. As voting bots became a part of the community, we cant fight them or remove them. But we can limit users using them. For Example whoever has more than 5000 SP wont be allowed to use voting bots in the future. Minnows who get flagged and loose their reputation for reasons like spam or plagiarism wont be allowed to use bots as well. That way only minnows can use them to be visible. Dolphins and Whales will be on the trending page anyway. They dont need any support to be visible.
There is another solution which might be even better! Push all promoted posts to the "Promoted" page, wether they use Steemit or voting bots to promote their posts. This method will clean the trending page forever!
We have already enough Whales and Minnows in the community and need to balance it. Otherwise the rich is getting richer and the Minnows giving up very early. We dont want Steemit to be same as Facebook full of Spam and problems.
We should also look at the other real problems like plagiarism and phishing. Try to add more security to the platform, maybe a "Steemit Live Chat". I spoke about this before and will still come back to it, because the problem is not solved yet.
I will tell you what I see as real problems here:
- Users with multiple accounts upvoting their spam comments. Just imagine 100 Spam comments per day and 0.15$ for every comments. And thats everyday!
- Users with high reputation selling their Steemit accounts. Whether it is legal or illegal I dont know, but it is happening. How can they open many accounts in a short period of time! Get the reputation and sell it.
- Phishing.
- plagiarism.
Whatever is happening here is effecting the community and the reputation of Steemit. So instead of fighting each other, we can work together and solve the problem.
Well thats my opinion and thank you for reading :)
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Nice bullet photo, my sister. Please to follow my votes and post my resteemitz...
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Only joking!
Yes I would love to see the whales team up against the crabs and the sea snakes for a while instead of battling each other, though they do have their reasons — and some of them make sense.... :D
Hhhh Yes I loved the photo too :)
You are the first one who called me sister lol The most of them are calling me "bro" Dont really understand why :)
I know they have their reasons and they are right in many points. But flagging is not the right solution, otherwise more whales will be involved in this cold war and wont have an end :( We are already having the ancient "Whales War" for a long time now and nothing changed.
I agree with your opinion, it's a case that always makes steemian minow dilemma, if the vote vote in steemit is objective then nobody wants to use bot, it will all focus on content quality.
Indeed! I remember some months ago everything was better. Now the most users are using bots and everything became more complicated.
"Push all promoted posts to the "Promoted" page, wether they use Steemit or voting bots to promote their posts. This method will clean the trending page forever!"
This is a brilliant idea. Where do I sign to vote for that?
Well thats the problem :) I am sure that this post is not going to end up on the trending page where the majority will see it :(
Next time use some bots! This should be on the tending page. Good ideas!
I love the suggestion of pushing all bot-promoted posts to the "promoted" tab as well. I hardly ever check that tab but I realized there must be hidden treasures there! Many bot-promoted posts are also valuable but I don't know any way to sort them out of the feed quickly.
I hardly check it too. I check mostly my feed and the "Hot" section. But once everything is pushed there we will check the "Promoted" section too :)
Very nice suggestions. Also, to be honest,I would recommend something like a penalty for inactivity as well, because many big players are just not bothered many times to take care and do what they did before before they became what they are right now. And that might be a problem for us..
The most people are not active when the Steem price goes down. We have also many investors here, who delegate their SP to other bots and projects. So they earn without spending time on the platform.
What do You think, is that fair enough ? :)
Well thats complicated :)
I think it's a way of earning passive, leveraged income, which the rich has mastered. Getting to that level is yeah, quite complicated.
this is the wat i want too .even i dont like bots .i am newbies and my blogs are worthful but i dont get much light in my blogs. Hope steemit makes some changes in it
Yes thats what we can hope for :)
I like the idea of "whoever has more than 5000 SP wont be allowed to use voting bots in the future." but maybe even lower it to 500SP or something, like you said whales will trend anyway. Lots of things can be better on here but in general I like Steemit a lot better than other platforms!
Thank you! Yes i also like Steemit better than other platforms. It became a part of my daily routine :)
Well i don't understand how bots work.
I'm trying to write comments by myself, maybe that is the problem why I have so low reputation.
But future is bright, hard-work will pay someday :).
Nice post, and nice describing of problem on this network, I will fallow you for sure, let's united and win against bots.
Well these bots are used to promote posts. You dont use them for the comments, but for your blogs to be more visible :)
You can find more information here: https://steembottracker.com/
Recently, some bots have been upvoting comments and it's shocking to see that. I agree with your points though.
I followed your comment on another similar post where you mentioned that you did a similar post. And here I am on your post. Great blog you have here. Following you closely.
Thank you for following me and reading my blog. Indeed it is shocking. I noticed that 2 months ago when I was running a contest and people used these bots to get more upvotes. It was really crazy. I hope that they will limit the usage of bots in the future.
Awesome post! I like it :) 👍
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