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RE: The great issue of Steemit adoption
Well that was certainly a good read. I actually do read. Yesterday I opened a new post, up for 1 minute, it took a few minutes to read, it was better than average but not special. And as I go to vote, it now being 5 minutes, over 30 votes. Waited... at 8 minutes 45 votes. I am certain I am the only one who read it. I commented about it on the post itself and got a response. The 1% use voting bots. There is a list, and if you are not on it. Perhaps these voting bots need to be eliminated.
I get what you're saying. If a post takes 5 minutes to read and digest but it has 20 votes after 1 minute because people are following after a whale, then something's up.
Hell, I've been guilty of that a number of times. I try not to, mind you.
And there's definitely progress on the voting bot front. But not enough. That said, the disparity between whales and regular users is perhaps an even bigger issue. Whales indirectly support a very superficial attitude towards content on this website.