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RE: Vote Bots and Most Auto-Voting is a SCAM
Nice post, and I can definitely see where you are coming from.
How do you feel about minnows using the bots as a #payitforward initiative rather than simply self-voting actions?
I did that some but it still just adds to the problem and destroys the reward pool. Better option is just send the steem/sbd to the person.
But if adding value of a upwards of $5 or so to a post does attract others to add value as they see there is value in the content by just glancing. Minnows often cannot afford to send 5 SBD, so sending 1 SBD that boosts another minnow and gives them a better opportunity to generate more income from the post seems like it does more to add to the community than take away.
It's all perspective, but I've been doing this for a year and it's got to be the most garbage state I've ever seen the platform in. I honestly prefer the days where everyone was just flagging each other and no one got paid to this bullshit. If the only reason people are voting on a post is because they think other people are voting on it then odds are they aren't reading it anyway. You can scroll through my feed and see how many people I try to promote that I can't even get up to a dollar anymore and it's pretty ridiculous because we have plenty of people posting plagiarized content getting insane payouts. Everyone is entitled to their own approach, but if things don't change I'll go back to the old way of using all of my voting power to flag instead of increase rewards.
I flag the fuck out of plagiarized content at 100% every time I see it. And I agree the state that the bots are in is currently out of control, but all things in flux. I'm sure it'll pass as all things tend to do. I definitely understand what you're saying though. :)
The plagiarizing post that make lots of money is extremely discouraging for me to try to produce any original content. I've seen people repost a youtube video, news stories off of websites and had nothing to it and make than my account is worth in a single post.
I don't know if this is related to the steady decline in the price of STEEM over the past few months.
Great question, I'd like to know as well.