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When the next Hard Fork is implemented things are going to change and hopefully for the good. Bit of a shakeup and a wake up call to everyone selling their votes. If they have left the platform and have sold their votes to the bot operators temporarily it could back fire big time. Bot owners are going to have to adjust how they operate right now and that is going to be interesting to see.
I am sure there will be plenty of posts trying to gauge what to do and what others might do. I will definitely be changing tactics and have been thinking out the box on this. I am not going to be joining a bun fight over posts as I don't see the point. Actually I am banking on a majority of users fighting over certain posts which would be great until they see they are wasting their time and votes.
What I would like to see is users stop selling their votes and start using the grey matter in their heads to upvote manually. That won't happen on mass, but maybe they will follow curation trails instead. Why would anyone upvote a post that has had the bots hit it early and there are possible/guaranteed down votes coming as well. Certain users have been plundering this place for too long and this I am hoping will bite them rather hard. I don't believe they have the followers they think they have and this should be a reality check.
I am looking forward to how the bots change their voting strategies and what rewards are handed back to those selling their votes to them. I just don't get it as if you place a $100 bid on a post you are only going to get $50 back plus what percentage the bot offers you. Let us say for argument sake it is 20 percent so your $100 is now $120 divided by two which is 50/50 so the author gets $60 and the curators $60. For the author to make a profit by using the bot he/she now needs another $80 in votes taking it past the $200 mark without any down votes. I don't see this happening and this is great news for all of us on here who are part of a community.
Once you break it down and understand the figures involved this hard fork is going to change the way we play. I think the ones who power down and subsidize their living expenses off Steem will have a tough time and must hate Hard Forks as it does create uncertainty.
I don't actually think too much will change sadly enough. We can but hope and I am hopeful but at the same time, people will still buy votes. the big vote sellers will get their money and the bot owners will change it up slightly also curation matters way less than you would think to a lot of bigger sp holders.
The flags might help but again, retribution good many back just now. It still will
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What the bot operators are obviously going to do is accept lower bids, which they very well can afford to do as their curation rewards will go up. This will apply to @ocdb as well.
We'll see if crap boosted to high heavens will be downvoted by users with their free downvotes and if that will not trigger retaliatory downvotes from the bots that will also get their free downvotes just like all the other accounts.
I don't think any tweaks in the math will put things right. The operative word here is altruistic punishment, which means going out of your way to punish those who violate community norms as in to suffer some kind of a loss in doing so. I don't believe in anything built on altruism. Communists did and look where that got them.
I think the only solution is not participating in punishing wrongdoers (if in no other way than delegating some SP to abuse fighters) to that cause resulting in loss of standing in the community. Now, the problem is that Steemians as a whole are not a community. There are too many of us and it is too easy for abusers to hide. This is why I think STEEM is best treated as a base layer token only, which it inevitably will. The distribution of STEEM is way too top heavy for the moral majority to do much of anything to stop those abusers who have a lot of stake. I'm only hoping that projects like @ocdb can spread stake as far and wide as possible before inflation dries up and the stake distribution becomes set in stone. I don't think STEEM is any longer good for curating content. Fortunately, Steem-Engine tokens and SMTs can be used for that purpose. It's possible to build real communities around those tokens particularly as their initial distributions can be much healthier. Palnet is already a proof of that.
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Send 5 steem to bot #a and get a pal upvote, steem upvote and whatever else they can think of! BOOM, you still get ROI! (not that I would do that)
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Thanks for that. I will do it later today when my rewards come in. Sent last lot to ocdb so will have to wait.
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They don't have enough yet to make a difference, I was predicting the future!
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You got a 2.69% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @cryptoandcoffee! :)
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