I think the consensus is that bid bots are bad for steem.
We knew that 3 years ago, but we are on stinc dev time, I guess.
By declining rewards bid bots end their impact on those of us that don't pay to play.
The posts still trend.
Visibility is still given for buying bot votes.
But,
Instead of taking from the pockets of everybody, only those buying votes will pay.
Steem is a commons.
The more you cheer on the already wealthy while they suck up as much as they can, you are cutting your own throat.
When a whale votes that value comes from all the other votes.
It makes your vote smaller.
Yea, whales!
I've suggested this in the past, in two different discords.
They booted me.
I have a suspicion that one of the ninja changes in a past fork made declined rewards posts not trend, but I haven't had that confirmed, yet.
It wouldn't be the first time something I pointed
If you know anything about that, dear reader, please contact here or on discord, eh?
I don't think they are bad. I think the mirror a real business case
There are two problems. They don't help clean up their mess and there are too many of them.
Imagine if it always COST money to gain visibility. So we would get the buy pressure of people wanting to gain visibility and still have ways to be seen.
Imagine if they gave one round a day to a curation team.
Imagine if they gave some of their profits to a flag team.
I don't dislike the bidbots, and I am glad we have some. However, it is lazy money for most of them and they aren't cleaning up their messes.
:)
I always enjoy your point of view.
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I just want pob to come back.
I would like for each subsequent vote to count for more than if it was alone.
We had that for ~8 great days.
You were here.
We knew at the time that this would be the end result of linear rewards.
Doldrums for the price, and graveyards for the newbs.
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Second this.
Too much water under the bridge to change back now; too many businesses built. Too much momentum.
I'm still convinced it was a mistake to ditch n2.
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It's time to set right what was intentionally broken, imo.
It was said that we would try linear for a while, we can always go back, but that was just one more lie from a (now) known liar.
We are still in beta, we should try other things if what we have isn't working.
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