The problem with all automatic voting bots is the same: the people who receive the upvote take advantage of the opportunity to slack off on the quality of their posts. I don't blame you, I would do the exact same thing; I would automate votes for those I consider to have a valuable contribution.

Despite that, it is painful to see how there are whales who don’t make the distinction you are making, so I congratulate you for trying to correct it. Sometimes, you compete with creators who, by virtue of being on an automatic voting list, post a single selfie with a single paragraph of text. That is when you feel this platform has a lot to fix, because those types of cases are no accident.

I have left Hive several times for different reasons—my life has been complicated—but one of them is precisely seeing that automatic votes are wasted on content creators who don't put in the slightest effort. This leaves those of us who do feel like quality isn't taken into account, and that the lottery is simply more effective.

Speaking of what you mentioned, I joined YouTube precisely with an urban exploration channel around Venezuela, thinking I wouldn't run into obstacles. Twice, unfairly, they demonetized the account I work on without any explanation, because it was a bot that randomly selected thousands of creators worldwide to strip them of their AdSense accounts. In other words, the lottery exists over there too.

It was because of the YouTube issue—which I know I will resolve once I figure out what I did wrong—and also because of the recent earthquake in Venezuela, that I returned to this platform. In my brief journeys through this ecosystem looking for content, I unfortunately see those kinds of posts with a woman's selfie and a brief text carrying an automatic vote. I know it's a bot because, in my mind, there is no way those creators could earn a payout for such a brief publication. I hope they correct it, because that drains the value of what Hive.blog is meant to be.

It is good to read that despite your limited time—as I agree it is our most valuable asset as we get older—you are trying to amend these oversights to clean up our platform. Greetings and blessings.