Wow wow this was really a powerful interview.
The idea of using bots is not really a good one to our community.
It makes people think that Steemit has shortcuts that can make them earn money faster and also grow their reputation score quickly.
People should know you can grow naturally here even without the use of bots.
If it was possible we would reduce or completely remove bots(my view)!
The issue of new users getting on board with the promise of earning a quick buck and end up posting low quality content .
We cannot do really much to stop them,as you said we need to ignore them and with time they will even drop out!
This community will work for people who are ready to learn and act.
It is like life itself,it is those who work hard and who have a clear vision who make it .
This quote below summarizes everything.
Community building skills are more important! You first build your audience, start to create relationships with people, and then start blogging and measure this over the course of at least six months. Instead of just whining, just post something good, hone your writing skills – stop whining about it being unfair. Who cares? Everything is unfair! (laughs)
Steemit is like life,you get what you put in.
Thanks for the interview series and devoting time to make Steemit better.
Hey - thanks for the awesome, detailed comment! I think that bots have their place for minnows, definitely. I think you cross a certain threshold in terms of expected return on every post whereby they're just no longer needed, unless you intend to promote something into 'hot' or 'trending'. In fact, demand has gone so crazily through the roof at the moment that I think only @randowhale (when he is awake) and @minnowbooster (limited to 5SBD of transfers per week) remain guaranteed profitable.
Agreed that we should just ignore the low-effort, low-quality posting users - problem is, for every user giving up on this approach, another one will have joined the platform. I think they're unfortunately here to stay for as long as the 'promise' of easy money remains. :)
Steemit is definitely like life: you get out of it what you put in, some people have unfair advantages, other people have it harder than they deserve, and the sooner you do away with illusions that you deserve anything or that it should be "fair", the better.
Appreciate the lengthy comment and feedback on this. It was a real pleasure putting this series together!