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RE: Why small ads on Steemit.com are a good thing
To me, i feel this is positive because it shows that the largest stakeholders on the platform finally decided to listen to some people. At least i haven't seen any yet. Ads aside, if steemit inc can find a way to fix the promoted tab on its UI and make it even more attractive to use than bidbots, it could drive bot owners out of business and reduce the amount of Steem in circulation.
The problem with the promoted tab is, that people don't seem to click the promoted tab very often. It feels like voluntarily watching ads. The good posts are in trending and hot and there is no easy way to distinguish posts that have been promoted via bidbots. So If you want to watch trending there is no way around the bidbot posts. But there is a way around the promoted tab. In my 1.5 years of steemit I maybe clicked it 5 times and I feel like other people don't click it as well.