Of my 269 followers, 200+ are bots. Steemit? More like Steemingpileofshit

natealexhart (32)in #greed • 6 years ago

I think the title says it all here. Whenever there's financial gain to be made, and that gain can be automated, profit seekers will come in and ruin it. I really do want to put out good content, but that is not what drives this platform. If your like is worth a lot, congrats, you'll continue to get likes! If not, too bad! I think it's ridiculous how many comments are just "wow what a great post!!". No one is reading your shit, seriously. No one is going to read this shit either. Pathetic.

I guess it's back to the twitterverse. What a damn shame. Follow me over there if you're interested in crypto/cryptogaming/etc.

If anyone has any tips on how to turn this disaster of a blog around, please don't hesitate to let me know in the comments.

PEACE

https://twitter.com/NateHart19

#money #bullshit #twitter #ohwell

6 years ago in #greed by natealexhart (32)

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borges.barilla (61) 6 years ago

Hi @natealexhart , I understand you completely. I am new to Steemit as well. In fact, there is great potential in here if (A big IF) Human-Curation was really been taken seriously by the devs. because, what is currently happening translates to this:

We need the Steemit Community to understand CLEARLY and once for all
how their valuable contribution to this platform is being ripped off from them.

As you well said profit seekers will come in and ruin it . Indeed, they are all around.

I hope we (the community) start organizing against dumb-bot-curration.

b.b.

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natealexhart (32) 6 years ago

haha great picture. I wish it were as simple as rallying against them, but they have so much power because their likes are worth so much. I love the concept of having financial incentives for making good content, but it really has devolved into "like the most popular people's stuff and hope they like your stuff back". They abuse the shit out of the welcometosteemit newbies also. The "follow" system doesn't work well over here because the more people you follow, the harder it becomes to actually read everything that is being posted. Maybe something will be done to fix this turd, but I'm not banking on it. Still, thank you for your well thought out reply :)

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borges.barilla (61) 6 years ago

I've been following discussions about how to eliminate voting-bots. There are quite few ideas floating around. The one I liked most is about adding a captcha, that has to be embedded in the blockchain, so that it can accept a vote (or even a post).

This can't be implemented only in the web interface. It has to be embedded in the blockchain (somehow) and I think that is why it has not been done yet. This is something that needs to be developed. There is no current solution to implement.

But, think about that.

If possible, and implemented, this would bring value back to both Human-Curation, and Human-Interaction in the platform.

I really believe this can be done, and would benefit the entire community.

It is only a matter of organizing around the idea, and pushing it forward.

About the follow up "reality" in the sense that it is close to impossible to read all posts from people you follow I agree with you. But I just see the follow as "well, lets see what comes next from those writers" and if some title catches you. You ready and Curate.

b.b.

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