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RE: The Number of Smartasses on Steemit is Growing!
agreed with @paullag and @abh12345 as well. I've come to see that bidbots from a UX standpoint don't help establish organic content. that is what this site is about right? connecting users with great content they enjoy reading. Instead bit bots fake users into thinking the content has value and waters down the internet time used to spend finding quality content. I am trying to recitify some of this SHIT with @sugarsteem hopefully soon ill be able to help people find better ways to find relative content than that of upvoted bidbots.
Yeah, and I know my initial reaction when first exploring Steemit (and when I show it to friends) is that there's a lot of crap that does very well financially and floats to the top of the pack because of people gaming the system. The advice that I always give people is to just ignore it and make your own great content and find other hidden gems that make content you like too. I don't go on the trending or hot pages at all. We could totally make the idealist vision of this site real if we removed all of the financial incentive to "cheat."
i think this is where @transisto and people are coming into play building a way to resolve this issue. Stay tuned there are smart minds that are aware of this conflict and user loss and are working on a solution. When @sugarsteem UI becomes available I will have the UI default to My Feed as a logged in user and default to the home page as a non-user. so the trending page will not be the first thing new users see. :)