Hi @royer94. These conversations are very important. We cannot necessarily see or understand everyone's full intentions but we can analyse the impact of their actions. The rewards pool is fixed. Many people are concerned regarding the amount going to bot votes or 'promotion' as some insist on calling it. For Steem to grow, we need the right balance of rewards going to various parties. These include content creators, curators, passive investors, developers, applications etc. Evidence suggests that too much is going to passive income (vote selling and bid-bots) and not enough to curators. In other words, people are earning more for looking away rather than looking at content.
I notice you are very new to Steem. This place can be quite confusing. I suggest you read as much as possible about the Steem ecosystem. Good luck to you.
Hi @spectrumecons, I appreciate your explication of Steemit system, and also I appreciate the way like you do it. I think that almost everybody in Steemit use bots to bust their accounts and I don’t know any bot illegal inside Steemit system. With regard to the posts and the activity of @chbartist I think that he post good contents and do a good work of curation. From my point of view the intention of @chbartist not is only take money for himself, rather he is helping to guide one little sub-community in @Steemit and improve our stempower to each one have a positive impact on Steemit. Please if you know something different feel free to talk with me. Thanks.
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Hi @royer94, thanks for your response. @chbartist writes posts that are very popular with his followers. He makes effort to read comments and rewards good comments. That is a very good thing. He also encourages others to help each other and has made direct contributions to people. He has also powered up his account which is strongly encouraged.So there is no doubt there is evidence of his generosity as well as good intentions for Steem.
However, @chbartist spends a lot on bots. It appears he spends more than anyone else by a significant margin. I can understand that people use bots for visibility. I have written several posts that indicate that vote buying does little for visibility unless posts get on the all tags trending page or on very popular tag trending pages. Even then, many of these posts make very little money.
Spending so much on bots reduces the rewards pool for other content creators. Very high valued posts also creates unreasonable expectations for new users. It encourages new users to also use bots to further reduce the rewards pool. Spending on bots also reduces the visibility of other people's work and thus forces them to also use bots. In other words, spending a lot on bots is harmful to the community. Many people are angry with @chbartist for doing so. These people lose rewards and opportunities because of this vote buying.
I understand you @spectrumecons. Then use of bots must be restricted on Steemit in order to be more equitable?
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I wish but I don't think so. There is a lot of money to be made from bots and vote selling. I think it is more likely that we will see changes to the reward system.
Is difficult to think that the system wasn’t create calculating each detail (for example bots). But, for now this kind of discussions are good and help to improve our behavior on the system and maybe the system too. I’m in discord as royer94#7549, if u want we can interchange ideas there. Hugs.
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