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RE: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bid Bots
Didn't realize you were a bid bot shill.
In short, bid bots and vote-selling markets are another reason for people outside the platform to invest, buy steem with fiat because they offer an opportunity for passive income in exchange for "currency risk".
Only people that make these weak arguments are vote buyers like yourself as well as sellers.
Your kind are destroying proof-of-brain and we would do w to fork you all off for collusive voting. That's what you are doing. Bribing bots!
Is your sense of your work SO weak that you cannot suffer it to stand on it's own. It's not a bad article. I've seen worse from participation trophy buying bid bot users. It's still overvalued.
Flagging for disagreement of rewards.
Fair enough. I didn't explain well enough - the rewards are not "real", I paid to get those rewards. The goal is not the rewards but to "occupy Trending" with good quality articles - in order for poor articles to have more trouble getting there.
I'll write another article, I came up with a new analogy.
I am not a bid bot shill, I don't need to be. Bid bots do not need me to shill for them. They are here and they are in rude health, I'm sure you noticed
Yes, I am a weak human, like a vast majority of our species, I respond to incentives. Actually, my analysis back in 1991 led to my conviction that Marxism and Communism can never work - they were predicated on strong humans who always do the right thing, even when it means acting against their own best interest.
That is not going to happen at scale, ever. You can have a group of strong people up to about 200 people, studies indicate. Above 200 people, game theory applies and "prisoners are defecting" and then it becomes stupid not to defect ...
Sorin seems like a nice guys and all and i dont think he is "shilling" here... The problem is that he doesnt seem to understand what general sentiment and perception of STEEM as a failed project is doing to the price.
Where ever you go online in the crypto space and mention STEEM, the first thing they say is: Oh, isnt STEEM filled with bots?
They dont even know how bots work here, but they know something with bots is going on....
Not only are bots not another reason for people to invest, thyre actually the reason for many to stay away.
Im not saying bots dont have a place here... Im saying that as they exist now, thyre hurting the platform immensely.
I am very concerned as an investor. Steem is getting negative attention because of the bots and the problems new users have at receiving attention and rewards if they don't buy Steem to pay for bot votes. On top of that new users need to buy Steem for resource credits.
I feel Steem has gone from inviting people to earn rewards to inviting people to pay before being able to have any sort of reasonable experience.
Our retention rates are horrible. We need to keep people here and viewing content. Advertising won't work if there are no eyes on content.
Agreed. If you make it so hard for new people to on-board, at least create some sort of earning potential for them.
If you make it so hard for anyone to earn any money here, at least make it easy for them to on board.
Problem is that both things are poor on Steem and when that happens then the superior choice for blogging is always Medium, superior for gaming is Eos or Eth, for communities Reddit, etc.
When everything is made so difficult, even if youre not here to just "make money" (as if thats a bad thing) seeing the boting self gratification leaves a bad taste in your mouth and retention goes down the toilet.