People who want to manually vote and interact will do so. Those who do not, will not. The automated services allow many inactive people - no matter their reasons for being inactive - to support other users or to give more voting weight to active curators. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. It allows passive investors to gain ROI. This is something that is needed on the platform.
The people complaining the loudest about these things simply don't understand the system. And their behavior is becoming increasingly trollish - which is a term I don't use lightly...in fact, almost never.
I agree. I've been confused about the complaints since I first heard them. People say "90 votes but only 6 views and one comment, this is an outrage!" I say....so you just want six votes and one comment then? What do they think is going to change other than less votes and money for them? Makes no sense.
I imagine that's their response, based on what I've been seeing so far. Or they actually believe that the six votes will magically become more valuable than the 90.
Some people just need something to complain about is really what it comes down to, because there is no logic in that. Do I want people to read my posts? Of course. Do I want people to comment? Sure. Would I want to make five cents as opposed to ten dollars when the same amount of people are reading and commenting and the only difference is the curating autobots skipped my post? Why would anyone want that, really it's illogical. Hence some people whine for the sake of whining, and maybe to irritate the hell out of the rest of us.
Yeah...pretty much this. I agree.
Is the purpose of a blog to receive votes, or to get readers?
Of course it's to get readers, but the autovoting is completely separate from that. Those people using autovotes do not have the time to manually vote and comment on every post that they would like to. So the authors they like and know they would vote for if they did have the time they send bots to. I don't see the problem with that.
I guess that depends on your motivations. Some people blog for money - to make a living. Others blog for popularity - to reach a large audience. Some want both. I think Steemit can meet the various types of demand...and thrive doing so.
And I come from a position where i spend hours and hours a day reading and commenting and voting manually just to be clear.
Take note our readers aren't only for steemit, so tho invisible or I don't know if there is way yet to determine this with a tool but 6 people viewed it steemit, hundreds may have seen it on google