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RE: I Tested Steem Bid Bots For A Week - Here's What I Learned
Thanks for sharing your experience. I did try some bots when I just created my account last year as I wanted to learn and understand all the options Steemit was offereing but after my short experience I decided it was not worth at all. Of course my account had also extremely low reputation back then but at the end of the day I believe the ROI you can get from real content creation and interaction is far bigger than the one you can get with bots. Of course you can just do both, but the "image" you may transmit to your audience is also a side effect to consider
accurate, but i cant help myself, every time I see this fallacy, I must correct it.
STEEMIT is not steem - steem is a hundred dapps that are awesome and we should never speak of steemshit.com again. It's an embarrassment to the blockchain.
A blockchain is everything it is part of its ecosystem, the BP's the protocol, the users, the DApps... It is good to understand and analyze all its players and options. Nothing is perfect but that does not mean we cannot improve it, use it, promote it and try to avoid the "not so interesting" parts of it. I have nothing against bots, the best way to avoid them if you consider not good for the project, is to understand them.
Also accurate, and the first step to understanding this chain, is decoupling stinc's reference prototype, now on its last legs from the amazing things going on all over it elsewhere, built by witnesses and users like Dragos and myself here and many many others.
We're some of the ones losing sleep and skipping meals for days on end in attempts to save this place before it's too late, over on github lobbying for chain and condenser code changes to benefit users, building tools and new dapps, building huge communities of users and teaching them how to operate in this environment, aiding in encouraging young users to mitigate our dismal retention caused predominantly by issues only possible on this ONE interface, and hosting and speaking at conferences and attending meetups to educate on the street and everything we can more or less, and far less prevalent on any of the other dozens of ways to use it.
I'm pretty assured that Dragos didn't do this experiment for himself, he already knew the situation and understood the bots. He did it to document it for newcomers and to prove some points, which are in turn being discussed and elaborated on here. I know this, because he and I have been here a long long time now and discussed much of this before. We spend time in the witness channels, we know the bot owners and their funding whales. We speak to them. We know why they do what the do, and what the math is.
The main problem is we have people coming here who DO not do this homework and it will never make sense to them. They are the ones leaving then to give a bad rep to the whole place. When if only they had never seen stincs crappy site, they would have never heard of bots or rep over on dsound or zappl or whathave you.
This is evidenced by the 10000 times a day I have to teach "steemit is not steem" to people like the gentleman on this very page who asked "so this is ok with the makers of steemit? and is guaranteed ?"
WE (including that misguided inquirer) are the makers of this chain. Steemit inc needs to go shut down and leave us alone to do the work.
Here, as in any other life environment, there are all kind of users. Some understand the technology and others don't. Some may not even have the tech knowledge to learn about it or just stumble upon the "wrong" mentors. I do not like some of the "not so clear" slogans bot creators use to try to catch its users the same way I do not like all the liers out there in the traditional trading markets telling people they will get rich in a month if they open a trading account and start trading. It is just the way things are and the best way to fight them is to ignore them or try to make their life much more difficult changing the "game rules".
We are on the same boat here.