RE: Transparency Bot is going online to help fight the rampant rise in bidbots and their long term devastating effect on our platform.
Don’t get me started on all the things that need to be fixed around here, lol. I can go on for a day or two...
The real fixing should be done by SteemIt Inc., but they don’t care and they don’t do anything.
The fact that a lot of early adopters are stuck in their circle-jerking and don’t care about the community, only about the money is a huge problem.
But we are small and can only do so much...
Those minnows that invest $5-$10 in bots are not going to be addressed by the bot. I must admit, I am not innocent in this. I do send money to the bots, although i realize I shouldn’t. But I have invested quite some money into Steem, and I never got a payout as high as $50, even when buying upvotes.
You know people are throwing $100s at a time to the bots??
I'm using $25-30 to buy upvotes for every post and getting payout around the same amount + some SP and I think this system is useful for platform, especially for minnows, since whales and dolphins has much more ways for promotion.
Also, let's not forget that main vote sellers like @minnowbooster and @smartsteem has limits and they use rating systems, so that they won't upvote shitposts. Maybe someone will use bidbots to make money on a low-quality post, but leaving spammy comments under everyone's posts in a row is not a solution. In my opinion this bot is not more useful then bot posting BTC price.
And I still havn't got an answer, why does this bot need SP? What it will be used for? It's not supporting minnows or quality posts, it's just leaving comments. If I'm not wrong no SP needed to post a comment.
Yeah, there are some dolphins/whales that throw in 75-100 at a time to the larger bots. Their posts and payouts are like $700+, that is abuse.