HEY WHALES??...When are you going to get around to banning upvote bots???
In my opinion, these things are a major roadblock to Steemit achieving its full potential. Newbies like me are immediately put off by the idea that others are resorting to such trickery and buffoonery in order to get credit (and financial incentives) they have not earned and do not deserve.
The Steemit community should be priding itself on QUALITY and REAL content, and on an egalitarian/merit-based rewards system. Our COMMON REPUTATION is tied up in whatever you whales decide is equitable and representative of the common effort here. I do not really want to be associated with a site known for condoning bots, multiple accounts, mail-order bride accounts, pure spam accounts, serial plagiarizers, etc.
We have some real work to do here folks, to clean this place up so that our COMMON REPUTATION SCORE can be high enough to succeed in the competitive ethersphere.
Thanks for listening. If you agree PLEASE upvote and follow. I will follow back anyone who follows me.
Are you kidding me? No one else is concerned about this stuff.
Up vote this, damn it!
Nobody?
Hey, Steve, I'm on your side. As a new member of Steemit like you, it is quite annoying to have to scan through bots and spam posts to read good quality posts. Even though it's quite easy to differentate between a human and a bot, I feel as if there are so many bots it is cluttering up the site.
If I could wave a magic wand, I would not allow these bots on this site.
Exactly. Thanks!
It's not the bots you can see that are the bigger problem, though, IMHO. It's people paying for their posts to be bogusly upvoted by bots that is a really corrupt practice.
yeah that don't make no sense, how can they get away with that, who runs this thing anyway?
who are the Whales also? where do you find them and how do you know someone is a Whale?
and what are their reputation numbers like?
I don't have any firm definitions ... but I'm gathering anyone 60+ in rating who gets three figures every time they post is a "whale." I'm sure some are good people and have the best interests of the site in mind. We need to identify the good ones as best we can, and vote for them for witnesses. You can youtube up "steemit witnesses" and there are some good explanations, Jon. Please do upvote this post if you like it. Thanks!
K. thanks