(One more time, an article inspired by 
At first, I was only thinking of writing and publishing a relatively simple & short story with the chronicle of the extinction of the bots. But then, after read stella's post and the first couple of such an extraordinarily lucid long replies & comments there, all of the sudden I came up with the odd idea of putting on my daredevil hat and start jogging all along reading each and every comment there with full attention until the very bottom of the comments section of her post.
Gosh, ¡Holy Crap! ¿Was that a good idea? Well, I think so.
This reading was truly insightful!!
This reading task took me almost all day yesterday. Since in many cases, these brilliant classy comments also took me to read other posts on the subject in development in other places too. ¡Wadda pleasant read flogging! my friend. Hahahaha }:)
Therefore, I had no choice but to divide this post with the story in two parts so as not to make it so long and tiresome. This, being the first part [Part I] of the article with a summary with the most outstanding, relevant and nutritious comments there. That I strongly recommend that you read to really find out what has been going on without having to suffer the same strenuous marathon I went through. So that you start positioning yourself in the middle of the context of what I will write in the second part of this article with all the chronicle of:
«-The Extinction Of The Bots-»
Ok, let's start reading the summary with some meaningful order. ¿Can we?
As now most post are voted per wallet size not the content. from
The fact that curation rewards are linked to the amount of steem a post gets seems a bit of a flaw. Those that get upvoted a lot will continue to get those upvotes even if their content declines in quality because many just do it to leech from the rewards. from
As the platform grew amazingly, regardless of qualification, I feel that the incentive for these early adopters to work or engage decreased because of the competition that was finally fairly introduced. Inflated expectations from prior glory days now became a curse where doing the same stuff from before simply didn't bring in $1,000-$4,000 a post, what people in poor countries would kill for to support their families for a year. from
When you have a shitty environment for genuine users to utilize the platform, they leave. When genuine users leave, guess who's left in the platform - users who are here for the ROI. These people will only care about their returns, that few are willing to bring up genuine new Steemians who write good shit because they are new and there isn't much ROI to help them. This builds a viscious cycle of genuine users coming and going, and eventually there will be no longer anymore genuine users.. and when that happens, there will be no audience in Steem blockchain and when there is no audience, how is it a social medial platform anymore? from
Sad, but true. On the "trending" page there are always the same names, the same whales, for which hundreds of bots vote in the first minutes after the release of any of their posts. A lot of different schemes with overflow of money, voting for own comments... from
it's clear that Planet Steem is just like the outside world. Rich getting richer, supports the one who has the same equal status in terms of SP (Not all but most of the whales, yes, they have this mindset), middle class people looking to get some money from rich and we have thieves as well in the form of spammers (Thieves are created, not born). from
I sometimes can't help thinking that steem and Steemit has accomplished exactly what it's creators intended! Let it be falsely advertised that a gold nugget was found where gold doesn't exist. It will not be the throngs who will get rich! It will be those who own the land, and sell the tools to mine the nonexistent gold. Their will be a few who will catch on, but the majority will work their guts out as long as the creators, while the the diggers sleep toss a few golden flakes into their diggings. As the throngs become discouraged and their interest wanes, the creators find other gems and move on from
I think there is a lot of ingenuity in thinking that it is possible to obtain a high reputation value simply by publishing good articles. When the reality is that, with the current system of measuring reputation, you can only have a high reputation if you are supported by users who have a lot of money and who assign it to you with their votes. If you do not earn money, your reputation does not increase. Thus, the goal to be a great influence is to earn a lot of money. from
From another post, yet related with this interesting subject:
Perhaps there was a lot of speculation money into Steem that vaporized and pulled out and joined the stampeded to get in on the rise of Bitcoin valuation with a lot more future potential for increase in demand and valuation. from
Well folks, each of these above are just a short excerpt of the whole comment of the steemian user in case. Each one of these paragraphs are clickable to read the entire thing. Now do not disappoint me, click and read the comment completely. I already spent the time to save you all the hard work with this summary daaarling. ;)
I consider you will need at least READ all these comments that I've selected for you in order to be able to understand the Part II of this story later on.
Because if you do not, or if you are so lazy to read, or you just refuse to first find out about the source of things before open your mouth commenting something without having previously the handful of asses hair in your hand about what you are talking about... Well mate, quite frankly, you're not gonna deserve the attention and respect of a Cranky Gandalf.
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