Voting Bots - Don't blame the tools. (Opinion)
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<html> <p><img src="https://magazine.seats2meet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Robots.jpg" width="624" height="351"/></p> <blockquote>A vote for you and you and you! (but you have to pay first)</blockquote> <p><br></p> <p>We can all look at Voting Bots and form an opinion on what they add or take away from the system. I just see them as a tool. When a shovel gets misused we don't blame the shovel. Blame the Spammer not the tool. We shouldn't take a valuable tool away because of spammy people. Isn't that the same excuse the government uses to regulate Crypto? It gets used for crimes. Blame the criminals not the tools.</p> <h1>I put money into Steem's Eco-System to buy votes:</h1> <p>Last night I wanted to get exposure for my #Adoptaminnow project, so I decided to use voting bots to promote it. This is not a first, but I wanted to promote it more than usual. Since I have been sending my SBDs out to Bittrex, I didn't have any SBD. I made a choice to go to Bittrex, purchase SBDs send them back to my account and use them to pay for some upvotes. When my post pays out some of those reward will be powered up and some SBDs may be used to purchase additional votes or to power up.</p> <p>My post was of reasonable quality, had a mission and the project is good for the community. (While I realize good for the community could be debated, I see it that way) To me this seems like a valid user case that benefits the entire system.</p> <p><br></p> <h1>Wealth Distribution is the reason for the high demand</h1> <p>The great demand for Delegation, Voting Bots, and much of the arguing that happens on the platform stems from the low number of accounts that hold substantial amounts of SteemPower. Since the beginning of SteemIt the users have watched the same group of people upvote each other nearly exclusively and it is still going on today. The voting bots were a way to get noticed despite the "circle jerk". Now some are unhappy, seemingly because they can't control who is getting the SteemPower and SBDs. Some of them would rather "Burn" it than see it distributed through our current system. That says a lot to me. I see the voting bots as a tiny way to level the playing field. I take no issue with developers and those smart enough to write, maintain, and run these tools making money. I've seen first hand the "Support" factor and believe me it is not free money.</p> <h1><br> Don't blame the tool, go after the spammers/scammers</h1> <p>Everyone is saying it, I've said it before and I will say it again. Somehow we need to make it safe for the community to use their flags. Most of us who do flag spam have received revenge flags and I will be the first to say, I haven't always done the right thing out of fear of messing up my account. I read that same concern over and over, and I have watched it play out, where it truly can lead to great damage when you flag.</p> <p><br></p> <h1>The community is paying for a lot of Spam control, what do they need?</h1> <p>We have SteemCleaners, and Cheetah, and Patrice and Spaminator and more.. Yet I can scroll down the "New" feed for less than 10 minutes to find a clearly spammy and scammy looking accounts. So, what aren't we doing to support those programs?</p> <p><br></p> <h1>There is generally a cost of doing business</h1> <p><br> To the Investors who want to say there is no financial incentive to flag so they don't want to use their stake for flagging. There are always unpaid elements to doing business. Investing doesn't always mean immediate turn around on the ROI. Sometimes we spend time and money on maintenance and development in order to keep our business model operational. I am having a hard time feeling to bad if you have to build some expenses into your ROI plan.</p> <p><img src="https://s25.postimg.org/c1p9q44of/red_flags.jpg" width="250" height="300"/></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Your view on this issue might be different. I'm interested in hearing it.</p> <p>@whatsup</p> <p><br></p> </html>
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