and indeed shouldn't be weaseling around that by delegating it to others who vote on their behalf (which, unfortunately, they are).
Isn't this breaking the common-shared agreement on technicality? It seems that code is law though so technicality is the law.
But yes I agree some leadership could also help.
And why isn't it happening (other than the excuse that it is interfering with an 'organic' system)?
This community is not very organic and is becoming much less so considering it is now largely a blind pay to play platform. What would have pushed this post up the ridiculous scale is if I had voted myself into trending.
This is about as trash post as my heart will let me get but, it does create discussions that clarifies certain things for me and those who stop by my blog, from people who are invested heavily in the platform. You might not agree with the proposal (I don't agree with the proposal) but, the platform is floundering and there is so much that isn't seen, shared or being done.
The core problems I have with the bidbots is, blind voting, lack of engagement with the majority of it, narrowing of rewards/value heavily biased to those who already have stake. It might be idealistic but this was meant to be a community that backed value based on content the community found value in, not the author which is what is happening now. What happened to manual curation? ~25% not enough to engage in the community cosidering on top of that there is the likely appreciation of Steem value to come?
I self-vote now, it is my stake. Fine. But, using the bots is calling the community to vote on me also (blindly). I am saying that my post is worthy of community support and proving the worth by ordering them to support. That is not community consensus, that is dictatorship of a kind and the ones delegating are supporting all kinds of things they may not agree with (say, if I had used bots you delegate to to bump this up a bit).
There is a space for the bidbots but, I do think there needs to be a massive ramping up of community/manual curation on them still before flags are involved as flags come with no reward and are therefore unlikely.
There has to be some community engagement on content (which is all we have) to call this a community doesn't there? Otherwise, just call it an auction site and be done with it.
... Yeah, I am idealistic and not very good at maximising my own value at the cost of others.