First off I want to thank you for examining this and for admitting that you were sort of blinded by faith. That takes a large amount of strength and I thank You!
I do however believe that in our open forum there is room for bid bots and down votes just not blanket statements. If bid bots are a tool they are just that. In the hands of a carpenter a hammer is a wonderful thing, but a criminal a tool of death. The key factor is the Content. Good content can use bid bots to find audiences and grow while down votes can hurt poor content. The notion that all of something is bad is juvenile and two dimensional. Just my view but seriously between payout changes and petty things like the down vote war crap we are losing more people than we are gaining. I don't care who you are but a circle jerk of 6 will not keep this block chain going. People come here to be rewarded for good content thats why bots grew and the case still stands. I find it amazing that those shaking their fingers at people are those that have already made their steem fortunes. Reminds me of when Warren Buffet says raise taxes because it only hurts new competition and not him.
Like I said I applaud you but our views are just from different mountains.
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Thank you for your feedback, and your sentiments resound with many others I have spoken to. Unfortunately I can't change anything, just try to inform what is happening. Even running (at my own cost) two Witness servers does not really give me any say in anything - all I can do is raise the points and hope the feedback from people is heard - at least when we place it here on the Steem Blockchain it is logged an visible. Hopefully someone able to influence change will take note. !COFFEEA 15
I just appreciate you not turning a blind eye and examining facts. Thank you
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