Thank you for a valuable input. Steeve is more of an experiement, pretty dynamically evolving, and we will definitely will be aligning Steeve according to all your reactions.
So, this is merely a kickoff of the genuine votes feature, we have to decide where to take it next. There may as well just be a button in the UI that allows you to switch between regular and genuine mode not to promote no bidbot experience too much since you are right that it has its place. We will be discussing this in upcoming days.
Thanks again and have a nice day!
I'm really happy to see a no bidbot experience. I think those like @fyrstikken were naive to think people would want to see only advertisements and paid programming when traditionally that sort of content always receives the lowest ratings. This is just the most logical step forward. They made it so we could pause and record live television; skip the commercials. There's a skip button on every ad Youtube offers. This Steeve genuine content experience was exactly what's been needed here for a long time. Now genuine content producers who skip the middleman can work in front of a genuine audience again. That's brilliant. Thank you.
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I don't know if you have encountered those.
Have you guys taken votes from @smartmarket and @minnowbooster into consideration? Thats still a way to buy votes from everyday people not "bidbots" and still get into trending.
We know about these, but they are not treated in any special way because:
So, treating just these two in a special way would not change much in our listings.
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