After two years of watching bidbots destroy this platform it is nice to see things change. With hardfork 21 (&22) the /author/curation rewards changed which ultimately makes bidbots unprofitable for users and encourages manual curation. Prior to bidbots on steemit there was a ton of interaction, sure most of my posts might only make a few pennies but I would always get a ton of comments and interaction with other steemians including some orcas and whales.
This slowly changed as bidbots took over the platform, exchanging weighted votes for hard earned steem/sbd seemed to be the most profitable venture yet for whales/investors with un-used steem power laying around. The idea that a promotion of an article could also come with an ROI (return on investment) was insane! How could advertising shit posts make you money? Well, that is exactly what happened and the shit show that followed nearly destroyed the steem ecosystem.
No longer did the trending page mean anything. No longer did high rewarded post mean it was a good post or worth the read. No longer did reputation mean anything at all. I spent a year getting to 60 rep organically and some people would have that in a few weeks with just a couple of shit posts, thanks to bidbots.
So many issues surrounding them too. They were constantly ripping people off. If they didn't have enough people pay in to make it worth their wild they would just not do a vote until the next round, basically stealing your money and giving you back shit leftovers. That among 100 other ways to rip people off, it was all a scam.
The sad part is many top 20 witnesses were in on this and are sad to see them go. Its exactly like the politicians in our country, they should be representing the people (steemians) but they only represent the special interest aka their cash cow (bidbots). This is exactly why lobbying doesn't work, only the money matters, not the people.
So yeah, I am incredibly happy to see this change and giving up more of my author rewards seems well worth it to be honest! Hopefully we can get more organic interaction happening again on steemit, or at least more real posts get seen and rewarded instead of just the garbage that gets sent to the bots.....
Just Check out the video, I have so much more to say!
