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RE: @abit Saved Your Ass on Steem And Many Don't Know This Information, Time To Vote For @abit As Witness
Because Steemit is stagnified with hyperpowerful bidbots
because no one wants to curate manually anymore
or comprehend the concept of a gift economy.
Oh yeah, and also Team Steemit seems to prefer not releasing the "dirty details" on things. But technically people could have known about it if they went to the #witness channel on Steem.chat. A lot of us watched the developments in real time on the day the patch was found.
I swear I read you saying that blaming people for using bidbots was a little silly, and now you seem to sing a different tune, or is that only me? I wonder if you'll ever respond to the comment I've left under that certain comment of yours.
It's a complex situation, I don't blame people because I know they are primarily motivated by greed and maximum profit. But, I also know they can choose to move towards a gift economy. You don't have to blame anyone to see that Steemit is rather stagnant at the moment. I find the bots boring more than anything. Btw, I responded to your comment. In the future make sure you tag me at @d-pend because I don't always see these under replies.
It's a wishy-washy position you maintain, either you condone it, or you don't, and in this post it's hard to say you're not blaming bid bot use, where as in the other post you clearly don't have a problem with it, exactly like you've expressed above, "I don't blame people". Tell me, why don't you blame people for undermining the platform? What good is all this profit maximization when you're stance is on gift economy?
I do think I contradict myself constantly on Steemit, because I'm usually brainstorming out loud. To be honest, after all these months—I still feel like I only understand a tiny fraction of the dynamics of how Steemit works (especially when you consider the psychological aspect, which continually baffles me.) If you don't mind continuing the conversation tomorrow when I'm more well-rested, I'd be happy to :-) In the meantime, give me some food for thought from your perspective if you like because I'm curious what you think about it.
In the framework of psychology, blame, shame and condemnation alike serve the purpose of expressing the level of disagreability one has for another's actions or inactions. In the context of voteselling, and even worse, vote buying if you don't condemn it, it's either excused, or marginalized, or outright endorsed by silence or even worse by the approval and encouragement of others and as it gathers socital approval the worse and worse the practice will become. What will become of this place as this practice gains acceptance?
Many marginalized the issue or outright shifted the blame to "the code" yet this practice only happened and continues so because people with stake haven't the incentive of checking it, and thus making such abuse not profitable and therefore a fruitless or outright painful endeavor. Why do people without stake lack the incentive to check it? Because people have, for as long as steem has been around, considered that code ought to deem what is blame worthy, what is shame worthy and what's outright condemnable. It's a sad state when people aren't capable of discerning such things for themselves and it's a sadder thing that so many lack the moral witherall that they would rather coddle those who beg for code to ordain morality instead of dismissing them as nonsensical and lacking the moral fortitude and integrity and declaring that they themselves are responsible for recognizing what is good, what isn't or what is neither. So, for me, someone without the stake to actually flag such abuse, the only way out of this quagmire is to voice my complete disapproval of it or outright condemn such practice and signal to others that there's a response to abuse that doesn't require code changes, a response from those whom haven't the stake, so that maybe, no matter how insurmountable it may seem, others who have stake join in. On the opposite spectrum are those who have sung the same nonsense and have displayed a lack of integrity and do so either because they think nothing of community or of the future, regardless of what they say counter to that, or simply are disingenuous so that some abusive users will reward their support of such condemnable behavior. I find it despicable either way.
See no one really shares where to search for this information, thank you for the details!
I know all to well about the downfall of curation to bidbots this is why I love what Stella in doing with her contest!
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