@themarkymark good to see a larger player in the game on the article... Thanks for commenting and I'm sure there are solutions. The most probable one and its early this a.m. so my brain is not 100% is essentially quality control. That would eliminate a large portion of the garbage. The problem with the bots is that they automatically perform their tasks regardless of content quality.
This is efficient for the bot owner as it allows them to be hands off and generate revenue much like I do with ubercart and my many websites that sell digital products, courses, classes books etc.. That said and my market is a bit different I have no control over whom my customers are as anyone that checks out and has paypal gets what they pay for.
The same applies here. Perhaps the only solution would be to unautomate the bots bots in some fashion with additional code that limits max upvotes per day, or requires some form of human interface prior to an upvote such as an "are you sure" pop up or something. Again likely unreasonable as many the run the bots are also highly influential members of the site and are less than motivated to take a course of action that could limit their steady profit stream.
The most likely probability is that like the market, them all being on one side of the trade will bring it to its knees and swing it the other way and turn Steemit into the next myspace. As there is competition for this niche Synero AMP, WildSpark etc. It is most likely that without intervention of some sorts, the bot owners promoting the shit content will bring about their own demise and loss of steem value as the quality of the site continues to plummet into shitsville.
No matter how you slice it, some form of stricter moderation is needed here. The anarchist principle is good in theory but not when running a business enterprise. There needs to be direction, policies and penalties. Also if you like the article, or it inspired thought.. toss an upvote..
Thanks.
I was about to go to bed and saw your comment here. There is one thing that really stood out to me that you said. It was Quality Control.
Quality control is so important. The lack of quality control involved with the rewards pool and more importantly, the buying of upvotes is astounding.
By astounding I mean astronomical. This is coming from someone who knows all about quality control.
I was a Land Surveyor. I still have the skill to go do a Land Survey of your property. It is a skillset that I've retained and I won't forget.
Being a Land Surveyor requires so much Quality Control it's ridiculous. When I set a property corner, my accuracy needs to be within a few hundredths of an inch. 0.03. Even that is too much. We want 0.00 to 0.01 (especially with a property corner)
When I set the corner to a building, along with the height in which the concrete slab will sit at. The precision required for this is within 3 hundredths of an inch. Zero room for error. Quality Control is a must, because without it, the engineers build the corner half a foot into the easement. Then they have to knock the building down. Failing to adhere to strict Quality Control protocols is detrimental to any business. Steemit functions a lot like a business.
Before I pick up my equipment, I must perform a backcheck. This is by pointing a laser at a traverse point. If I am off by more than 10 seconds of a degree I have to document it, and try to find out at what shot I bumped my gun. A car driving by rattling its exhaust, or a harley davidson, could shake my gun enough to throw my traverse point off by 2 miles. Quality control is a must.
If you think you can overlook quality control, you're overlooking a key concept to a successful business.
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Very true.. QC is everything.. I am familiar with your tools.. In the Marine Corps we worked with the D&S (drafting and surveying) guys a lot with their little tripod and gun for laying out defensive positions.. stuff has to be exact for sure...
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