A downvote has no cost to me in the present HF. An upvote costs the bot in RCs. The difference in costs, coupled with EI reward split, is what is making voting bots no longer as profitable as manual curation.
If you don't get it no problem. My micro influemce is not worth the typing if you can't grasp the larger picture.
Nothing personal. It's only business.
The larger picture is...Downvotes are scaring everyday people away from Steem. If you don't get that....Well. Yeah. Keep using your 'free' downvotes....It's working out really well.
My assumption is that your observations are anecdotal at best. Heaven forbid if your everyday people had to suffer the critique of real world editors.
My anecdotal observation has been that golddiggers come and go at the rise and fall of the fiat exchange of STEEM.
The big picture was referring to the fact based observation that voting bots are in marked decline and the somewhat agreed opinion that the trending page is worth looking at now, with the recent changes in the last HF, which are two good things for this project in my opinion.
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See that's just it...
Everyday people shouldn't go through 'real world editors' and this lie that Steem must only have Pulitzer Prize winning articles and content is insane.
No it's not anecdotal. I work with hundreds of community members every single day and bust my ass to bring people to Steem.
Two things scare them away the most....The confusion with account keys and the potential of downvotes.
Heaven forbid you create a blockchain of encouraging and supportive members....