Getting paid to promote is unfortunately the market telling us that exposure here is, if not worth less than nothing, at least worth less the value of the vote when half of the rewards are subject to a mean locking period of 6.5 weeks. Basically the free market is telling us that our platform sucks and exposure on here isn't worth shit.
I believe the main reason was the broken economy which the last hardfork attempted to fix. I'm optimistic that it will be at least partially successful. There are other reasons too of course, but having an economic system that punished honest voting was the chief culprit imo, and hopefully this less so the case.
Can you please let me know that why you have heavily downvoted my post here: https://steemit.com/gaming/@siddartha/claim-your-free-hero-in-an-upcoming-blockbuster-crypto-game
I created an original content and reviewed a game. Not sure what is to downvote in that. I have always appreciated your content, especially when you used to write those longer posts filled with satire and Asian jokes!! Not sure, when I pissed you off to see you the biggest downvoter on my post. In fact, I have almost never got a downvote on Steemit in past 2 years. And now after a long while I write a post, and a trail of downvoting follows me. What has changed?
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The economics have changed since the last hardfork and it's no longer as expensive fighting abusive voting behavior.
I don't believe a vote buying system that pays people to advertise is in the best interests of this platform. People who profited from buying votes in the past unchallenged now run the risk of getting burned, and in doing so should think twice about purchasing votes in the future.
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Not sure how me using bidbots to make my post more visible is an abusive behaviour. Whales can self upvote their posts to make their posts seen, but minnows don't have that opportunity. So some of us have to use bidbots for that. It's not that I'm making some lame content and just getting it artificially upvoted to earn money. I have in fact stopped posting for a while now. But whenever I do write, I want it to be seen and not just vanish into the darkness. Bidbots is a great way to do that. If a section of steemians don't want bidbots, then they should discuss this with bot owners instead. Instead of grinding us minnows in between. This only increases toxicity in the community. You want more people to use Steem or even less.
Seeing this coming from a popular content creator kinda surprises me. If tomorrow a meme post of urs gain hundreds of $, would you downvote it or like if someone else downvoted just coz they feel it is overrewarded.
The irony is that we have anarchists in here who don't want government, police or army and then they try to dictate and police whenever given a chance. Anyways, thanks for the explanation. Peace.
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You can use bidbots. I'm free to downvote posts that use them and make it less profitable for them and their delegates to maintain a profitable enterprise which I believe undermines honest voting and harms this ecosystem as a whole.
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Well, that's fine. But I do have to say that in crypto world, profits is the main motivation for most people. If people can profit a bit from the ecosystem, then they are more inclined to invest and lock their cryptos. Making it unprofitable for bitbot projects and their delegates will only drive them to dump their stash even more. I didn't use bidbots for profit, but when people like me see that I can't make my posts more visible then it will certainly discourage me to choose steemit as the first platform for posting my content. Anyways, I hope your efforts work.
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