The Curse And The Blessing of Steemit Auto-Voters!

in curation •  7 years ago 

The Curse of Auto-Voting!
As first let's be clear about that the Auto-Voting tools, neither their creators or owners are not the ones who we should blame for the existence of that 'curse.' We are the only ones who may be guilty if we are not aware of it if it slips from our attention and if we don't care, neglect or even just forget to solve it.

So, what is the curse?
The curse of using Auto-Voting tools is that being lulled with such wonderful automation, we might forget even to check and read those posts and not to mention leaving a comment there. And that's exactly what happened to me!

It ended up that I was missing most of the articles of my preferred authors, more than I would miss out at the time when I was doing it manually. I felt so nice and secure knowing how auto-voters would take care of everything (or almost everything), and by my auto-votes keep supporting the work of those members I like the most. But that was partially wrong, and I'll explain why.

If nothing, hey, I didn't put those people on auto-voters because I don't like what and how they write. I put them there because I do, and it turns out that I read every second, third, fourth or even any of their publishing. Not to mention that accordingly, I didn't leave any comment there either. Pure disaster!

OK, those members enjoy my regular upvotes but is that really all that it is about!? I don't think so! After all, Steemit is not some lonely publishing-platform planet. It's a social network as well!

And above that, wouldn't those members be happy to see my comments, some real engagement with their content, except just some, more or less, blind automatically left vote? I'm sure they would! I know, I would when we turn sides.

Therefore, I decided, this has to be stopped! If you think that I'm going to stop using auto-voters - oh, no, NO! You are wrong. I found a much better cure and way more efficient solution for this issue. In fact, I came up with simple and easy but...

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