We think there must be a change and we are bringing it to the table. The current promotion system is broken and everyone can see that.
So that is why you pushed this post to 1k with attempts to use services which you disagree with in the first place?
I find it really funny. It's like: "Case, meet point."
No post by a new user should be allowed to get a boost like that. But it is.
I don't find it funny at all as there are people who believe that they are right even they are obviously wrong.
In Hebrew we have a saying: "The owner of capital is the owner of opinion". They can afford to push their belief and spend money advertising it. I am constantly shocked by the duality on steemit: users who rejoice at every 0.10 upvote because they WORK for their content, and want RECOGNITION, and a group of stakeholders throwing around insane sums that 90% of users can't even dream of.
It's enough to read comments in here, There will always be an individual (or small group of people) who decides what is right and will use their all means to push that forward. That does not mean they are right regardless if they have fundings or not. People behind this project will realize sooner or later that this will not change anything and they will become only one of many hated bid.bots.
That's very possible. Alternatively, it will fail because stakeholders with enough SP to make it a significant contender in the (already overcrowded) market will keep investing with older and more profitable bots. This one cannot be as profitable as the competition because of VP spent on flagging. In fact, I am not even sure how it can be profitable at all, but the team behind this experiment probably has better math skills than I.
This experiment is a statement, more than anything. Which is why I am here, reading the comments and eating all the virtual popcorn. Steem is never boring and this is just the latest addition of things to discuss and argue about - a supposedly "ethical" bot. I am curious.
I think that it lost the ethical part when the maximum age of a post was set to 6 days.