The trending has been amazingly better since these changes. And people still use upvote bots to advertise stuff it just comes with people not getting any ROI because of some downvotes... BUT they still achieved their goal of getting a post into "trending" so their marketing dollars seem to still be working.
So i hope @booster and a couple others stick around I see no issue with a few sticking around. If i had something I wanted to advertise I'd use booster and others AND i'd say at the end of the post that I don't mind and even expect it will get some downvotes because that's the nature of steem. I expect to not get a free money because of advertising I expect that exposure actually costs something.
And finally promotion should be more in the hands of the UI anyway. Let's hope interfaces make some changes to help give users an option to advertise things they find important.
Fuck Trending - our MarketCap is a disaster - The Dollar Amounts is not even realistic
Do you really think that putting those bots out of business had a bad influence on the marketcap?
the people using those bots were those who were cashing out every cent they got here and just left enough in to shitpost and upvote and selfovte with 10-20% apr every post with almost no risk.
@fyrstikken, someone on Discord (or you) has recently sent me a message seemingly trying to make amends as we have not seen eye-to-eye for quite a while.
I replied harshly to that person as I immediately assumed they were a scammer. (Their name is "fyrsticken" which does not match your spelling).
However, @drakos informed me that is indeed your account (why do you have so many discord accounts?). If the fyrsticken account belongs to you, then can you kindly reply to this message with a verification?
The actual discord tag for the user is
@frysticken#1337.I will await your verification on-chain before proceeding to chat with you, or anyone claiming to be you, via discord. If you do verify the account belongs to you I will give our "relationship" another chance.
Not sure i care as much about the market cap as you do... obviously you can see my wallet. haha
I just want a nice place to create and consume content. For me i don't create much content so mostly i just want to consume content. There's a thought that maybe market cap being down will stop this place being so reward pool centric and bring in creators that like the other aspects of social media on blockchain. But yeah i guess higher steem value increases the reward pool and that may increase the amount of creators... but I just kinda doubt serious creators will ever ever ever view the rewards pool as a real way to make money. They do this for a living and are good at it... they know they can't support themselves or sometimes entire teams of people off of this. Solid money comes from having the eyes and ears of tens of thousands if not millions of people and ads and connections with really wealthy companies like sponsorships. Reward pool is fun and nice and gives people a bit more of a voice but steem has a lot more to offer than that.
Anyway i thought your post about paid votes was about marketing a post and getting into trending.