RE: Why Bid Bots are Bad for Steemit | Imagine if the NBA Allowed People to Pay to Play in the League?
What if they just did something similar to YouTube where you have a couple promoted videos at the top of the feed and then the rest of trending is filled with content that hasn't been promoted. It does seem too challenging to build a front end that would display stuff like that.
Are you more opposed to bid bots taking a large % of the reward pool or the trending page being filled with sub par content?
The latter is easily fixed by following creators who make good content and not even bothering with the trending page.
You can also follow individuals who curate high quality content.
If the NBA was pay to play, and some high income individuals bought there way in, yet high quality players were still able to play, there would probably be some organic separation of the good players and the pay to play
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Hey @metama I actually really like your idea of showing a limited amount of sponsored content that's paid, but everything else IMHO should be 100% organic what gets to the top. I know people will always find a way to game the system and I'm sure creating an algorithm resistant to that would be a huge challenge.
I get what you mean about follow content creators you enjoy and ignore hot and trending but in that case what's the point of having a hot and trending? To me the hot and trending should be the best of the best or most interesting content and in reality its the worst content. Maybe we get rid of the hot and trending tab and just go chronologically, we'll still have garbage content on there but at least its a level playing field at that point. To me whats really bad is when someone new comes to the platform they are going to be immediately turned off by it.
Another thing, is Steemits search function is pretty horrible which means its hard to find content that appeals to you. There's people I discover on here on a regular basis who I'm like shit I love this guys content, why did it take me a year to find him.
Also ultimately I think what we all want is more adoption overall, and not only more adoption but right now pretty much everyone on here is a creator, I think we want to get more people on here who are consumers of content so were all not just talking at each other trying to get our message out. Right now the environment is not appealing at all to someone who would be comming here to read or watch content. Your average person would abandon this site visit within 10 seconds most and go back to youtube, medium, etc
As far as bid bots go, I'll be honest I don't fully understand Steemits algorithm, how bid bots work, etc despite having been on here over a year, I've just never really cared enough to dig into all the stats and figure that out . I'm comming at this more from a larger picture of I see what they are doing to Steemit, I feel like they create an imbalance of power and I think they cuase people to game the system as opposed to creating quality content and having it organically rise to the top so to speak.