Steemit - Rise of the Autovote? An Autovote Majority?

I made a post this morning. And it had under 20 votes after 30 minutes, and under $1 payout. What was going on?

As I checked other posts, there weren't very many made this morning. Those that were made, had low upvote counts as well.

What is really going on?

Many people use autovoting technology, like bots to vote on the same authors, or other sites to autovote based on criteria, like following the votes of others. One site that does this is streemian, which is down.

The saying is a play on "rise of the planet of the apes", where the autobots and autvotes are taking over instead of the apes :P

When streemian goes down it shows that 2/3 of people use autovoting and vote-trail following for their voting behavior.

Is that disturbing to you? That a large majority of the votes come not from people who upvote your content becaues they like it, but because they autovote it or follow others who might upvote it.

Do you think it's disturbing to people who might be thinking of investing in a so-called "social media platform"? Why are people going to invest in a "social media platform" that has over 1/2 of it's content not even evaluated by people? Is this what a "social media platform" is, where content isn't being evaluated or appreciated by the people/voters in order to rank how popular or desirable it is?

This makes content popularity not even really based on the upvotes received. Only a 1/3 proportion of upvoters are possibly voting for posts willingly because of the content, not with autobots, autovoting authors or following vote trails.

When looking for content, such as popular content, one would think that people would actually like the content in order for it to become popular. But that isn't the case on Steemit. The votes allocated to posts aren't coming from a majority of people who like the post, appreciate it, value it, etc. It seems the majority of votes are from autovoting and trail following.

Plus many votes, manual or autovoted, are for curation rewards too, again not even about the content being good, valued or appreciated by the person voting.

What do you think about all of this?

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