RE: Is steemit really as bad as I think?
Hi, I also agree with you here. Crap posts being upvoted, nonsense anti-global warming posts also getting upvoted (for all we know global warming is happening right in front of our very eyes). After reading your whole post I came to realize that because of the rewards steemit is offering people flocked to steemit with the hope of earning. When a reward is offered expect that people will grab the opportunity including those who have little to offer that end up spamming, plagiarizing, and copy pasting articles from the internet. With that said, its negative effects will be the negative you see on steemit like spam, plagiarism, copy paste, hate, bullying, trolling, nonsense. These effects are the reflection of the society we live in. Let's admit it that every social media we see today have its negative and positive effects.
To be honest I am struggling to find a rational person like you here in steemit that seem to care on the society we live in. Most steemit users I came to see are just posting to earn and be upvoted by a bot they pay to upvote their posts.
Hello,
Thank you for commenting. There are others like us. Instead of reading #science you should read #steemscience, though I don't think creating a new tag is the answer to the problem. What happens when the nutjobs learn of #steemscience? Will they start tagging their non-science posts with #steemscience?
I think one possible answer to this is to start using chainBB instead of steemit/busy. ChainBB is segregated by forums, each forum pertaining to a different topic (just like subreddits on reddit). The owner/admin of a forum has the capacity to hide posts, mark them as "spam" if you will.
Regarding the vote bots, I'm 100% with you. I think those should be banned. I don't think paying to have your posts upvoted is good practice.
I've read some of your posts and they're nice. Sadly, they don't seem to be drawing much attention. I suggest you start creating some relationships by commenting on others' post (like you're doing here), to build a following. I call this the "dirty work". I've given up on earning any money, I'm just commenting and posting as if I was on reddit. If the money comes, good, if it doesn't, good also; I've no expectations.
This is the first time that I came to know about chainBB I might as well try to check it. Yeah, bots should definitely be banned. To be honest again I am very much picky on what posts to comment on. Like I said, I am also struggling to find posts that I have common ground or interested to begin with and also add that I am always busy. But I will do your suggestion on commenting to build a following.