RE: RE: Fast Reply - Why Not Take Things Even Further? Let's Automate All Replies
Truth in every word of criticism of the process.
The bots and the auto-upvotes are killing all the incentive of taking time to create anything at all, including comments. The technocrats who designed the process could not have done better if they had intentionally built in a "get-rich and then self-destruct" code block.
I'm new at this and it looks very different than it did a few months ago. Instead of being excited about the creative possibilities, only the disillusionment of being immersed in an activity where all the winners are cheating, where everyone knows they are robbing the poor, and the rules make it okay.
The only clear option I have found so far is to either join the robbers or STFU and keep on Steeming.
If there is any incentive, it has been cleverly hidden. /rant
I understand. I’d still like to believe that the incentive is some of the cool people here. They exist.
I’ve found some, and I’m pretty sure more exist, but they’re hidden by the user interface.
It would be great to have a tag that marked us as real people who wanted to interface with other real people without any "bot-boosting", as if we were sitting at a table and chatting. Maybe the nobidbot tag will be a good starting point.