To succeed you must adapt and in that spirit I am changing my approach to the bid bots. I still think they can cause issues with the value of the content that is visible, as subjective as that may be. However, I am seeing some progress being made in that area and the market has spoken.

Source

I previously made the case that we should mark promoted posts as ads through the code with a little "ad "tag similar to the way google does it with their search results.. Honestly, I was just being a whiny little bitch about how I thought everyone should act. Now, I am of the opinion that they are marked well enough based on looking at the upvotes and the comments left by various bots.

I think most people will still be bringing good content to compete effectively, so fuck it, let's do it. This is just a crypto/social media experiment anyway so it's hard to say exactly what makes good content.

The simple facts are that some different stuff will make it to the top based on many different strategies and relationships and it will be interesting to see what becomes the cream of the crop. I personally, will just be bringing the kind of content I like, just raw honest truth, like I'm talking to you in my living room. It can be as simple as this nice little free flowing post from Hive account@whatsup.

Creativity

As you might have noticed, my creative juices had quit flowing very well recently and I think that little post helped me relax a bit. Thank you for that Hive account@whatsup. I like reading stuff like that from cool, down to earth people like Hive account@whatsup and Hive account@seablue.

Let's Be Honest

I am also swayed to use the bidbots by my desire to capitalize on this useful way to promote my content and increase my SP. The market has spoken and I will engage in this experiment. I will be using Hive account@booster and possibly other bots to promote my content and content from The Steem Experience community

I'm Going to Use Booster

Booster is my choice for many reasons. Some of them being that I really like the Hive account@frontrunner votes and I really like the team behind the project - Hive account@fyrstikken and Hive account@inertia. I also like some of the content I see Hive account@booster supporting.

Real Talk

I used some medicinal herbs :) tonight for the first time in a while and realized I've been being kind of a dick in a few ways. Sorry for all the preaching, it was probably annoying as fuck, but hey, maybe I learned my lesson and got it off my chest.

Love y'all, Peace