I'll be honest I was scared on that giant powerup. I really hope you're right and there are no "conspiracies" in the background in order to give huge power to shady individuals in the network.
Thanks for the stats, as usual, anyway, I'm glad to see we're about to stabilize near the 30k daily active users.
Also, what was that sudden spike of half a million daily votes? Any ideas?
A weird spike in the daily votes indeed. I think it's done by voting-bots.
For fuck's sake, someone should purge those. I'm active for barely more than a week but I have enough of them already.
This is unacceptable. This kind of stuff is detrimental and cancerous, I can't believe anyone lets it happen.
This is an interesting question, I would also like to know who invests this money.
Since Steemit is still small and fragile , every major BIG investor should also post a single post and say why it does this and why she or he is here.
Back up. Purge them? Why? And what makes you think that is even possible?
Every vote on the steem blockchain is made by a human. Some humans use computer programs to make a lot of votes based on an algorithm - but a human being is the reason for all of them. Do you think there is some gatekeeper here who “lets” people exercise free expression?
Why? Because their vote represent no real value or opinion, and as such are worthless regarding the help of rising content that are accepted and appreciated through consensus.
Is it possible? I don't know, and of course if it isn't, then I'm not calling for governance or something. I just want the value of Steemit to be more apparent, rather than letting bots express automated responses.
Yes, humans are who behind these algorithms. But the votes aren't coming from them.
And finally, again, no, I'm not demanding governance. With bots, Steemit is still democratic, but represents false values. Not a single person I heard expressing he won't read "trending" because bots make uninteresting bots rise.