RE: Triggered by the Exclusion List and Non-Apology.
I missed the drama because I have been actively unfollowing people who basically only post about Steem - and she was included. Nothing wrong with her content, but I'm trying to ensure that most of my support goes to authors & topics that will attract people from outside the Steem ecosystem, and Steem/Steemit is not one of those topics.
Also, I get so tired of this bot vs. people debate, as if there's only room on the platform for one or the other.
I actually don't have a problem with her publishing the list, though. She can't force anyone to use it. It sounds like it was a pretty low quality list, and it would've eventually been either fixed or ignored. The ironic thing is, a list like that is basically only useful to bots. Is any person really going to manually consult a list with 955,000 entries on it? "Here's my exclusion list so your bot can avoid supporting other bots?"
Last note, your link is broken (or was when I started this comment. ; -). I had to look through your comments to figure out what you were talking about. Here's the link for any other readers who might be in the dark.
Reasoning behind the Exclusion list, An Apology, and Time for a Change of Plan
she did have one interesting metric that she pulled out in her post, and its that she thinks there are 40,000 real users on the steem blockchain. Previous estimates put it at 60,000.
Out of those 60,000, how many are real shit posters? people who are just posting and fishing for upvotes? I wish I could get a real number, but it seems like real usership is under 20K to me, but thats just me pulling a number out of my ass.
I'd like to know too, just out of curiosity, but I think that all platforms have this problem. I understand that there's a fairly large industry for facebook and twitter "click farms."
OTOH, the point of stake-weighted voting on steemit is that in a practical sense it shouldn't matter. If you split your stake among 100 accounts or 1 account, your overall influence is the same. Regardless of how many accounts they use, people who invest more (in the form of time, money, creativity, etc...) have more influence than people who invest less.
I saw that stat, but I figure it was generated as thoughtlessly as the list.