How annoying is it when you see a great piece written by a new Steemian offering good advice or an interesting perspective, only for it to be getting absolutely zero attention? No views, no upvotes - nothing. Very! What is even more galling is to then see a picture of a flower which has garnered $20 or more. Is this the road Steemit wants to go down because the way I see it, this platform will die if it doesn't support all of the community: and that means new members too. Supporting new members will help grow the platform, which in turn is like free promotion of Steemit (word of mouth amongst friends/family) as well as helping push the currency rates upwards.
The powers that be at Steemit have to decide and true to real life, that is out of most of our hands. Only a select few with the wealth and voting power can decide this but I would suggest if all of us refuse to use bots hopefully some of them will disappear. I initially did sell my vote briefly a couple of times when I first joined Steemit but then realised this was a mistake as I was helping to contribute to the promotion of these bots and the slew of plagiarised and low quality content adourning the hot and trending pages. I have now decided that I will no longer use bots or sell votes because it isn't good for the platform. I realise though that money goes to money and that you will never stop people using these bots but I hope that in time people will realise that they are helping to destroy the platform and stop doing it. People can choose to take a moral stance against this, as a quality post made by a new Steemian which they spent a lot of time and effort making which is dwarfed by a pic of a flower which probably wasn't taken by the poster is just wrong in my opinion but hey ho, Steemit, it is in your hands. Who am I to judge? Let the market decide as they say! What are your thoughts on this subject? Please leave a comment below. Thank you.
