RE: Vote Bots: Great tool or destroying the SteemIt community?
Personally, it's a total turn off. It upsets me having to wade through so much poor content on this platform and now I'm looking at some of it and guessing that low effort posts are getting attention and making money because they are 'gaming the system' or using bots. I guess that is a reality I have to accept and perhaps ignore right ? I can do that. But can other new users ? New users coming here seeking quality content and not just to make steem bucks ?
Full disclosure - I'm a semi noob who got on steemit a half year ago and was totally turned off by the 'everything is freaking great' attitude BUT am now back on and giving it another chance because I have some good people encouraging me to keep going and that there is legit good stuff in here.
Any recommendations for quality people to follow are very welcome.
Glad you came back to try again. I see you are permaculture oriented. Have you looked at @pennsif's list of homesteaders and preppers yet? They're grouped by area too, so you might find some like minded people there. The last list is here: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@pennsif/homesteaders-and-preppers-on-steemit-heading-towards-300-by-the-new-year-v11-23-dec-17
Sadly, not all are still active, but you never know, they might return like you. 😊