The rationale behind bid bots is that it is the so-called new form of advertising, according to its proponents. What they fail to realize is the long-term psychological effect on the community.
People are beginning to hate the targeted ads served by Facebook, Twitter, Google Adsense to their users. How much more serving it to all people regardless of interest? That is the scenario I see with the Steemit trending tab.
They will argue that Steemit is a stake-based platform, not a charity. Okay, well and good. But don't expect to see quality content on a stake-based platform when anyone can generate ROI for whatever nonsense they wish to shit post.
One of the reasons why I am resigned to the idea of posting anything of value on here. Why would I? It's meaningless at all. A square peg in a round hole. I don't blame the system either. It's the default. I blame people who are trying to fit themselves in an environment not suitable to their life-forms.
It's like a group of starving wolves trying to migrate to the sea because there is plenty of fish, and then blame the ocean for being a hostile place to live.
Before I end this unsolicited mini-rant, let me introduce this tool to people who are serious in their craft. This allows generous content consumers to reward creators directly if they like the shit they are seeing. It can be integrated into Medium, Twitter, YouTube, and many more mainstream applications.
That looks great, seems it's redundant to put steem there since it already does everything those do: Publish Content, get Rewarded.
Spot on! Definitely worth trying for those quality-driven creators.
I've only posted one article and I'm already with you. I've earned $0.01 in six hours, while some really awful posts make dozens of dollars within the first 5 minutes.
The only difference is that I do blame the system. Posts should be eligable to receive rewards for (new) votes for forever. How often have I encountered a great article on a website that was more than a year old? With the short timeframe of 7 days, people are heavily incentivized to leave messy poor quality posts.
The system favors quantity over quality.
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