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RE: Why I Stopped Using Upvote Bots And Why You Should Do The Same!
It's absolutely ridiculous that the issue of upvote bots and site exposure hasn't been addressed properly.
Instead of trying to fix the problem we programmers are stuck in the old ways of simply trying to abuse the system.
It's like a professional athlete that does performance enhancing drugs: "Everyone else does it so I have to do it to stay competitive."
No... no you don't. The programmers on this chain need to remove head from ass and program ways to find the real content. Wade through the shit and find those candy sprinkles.
Ohhh but, steemit frontend developers if they exist are not steem blockchain developers - right?
You're using minnowbooster. You're paying for upvotes to make it look like your content is better than it is. You're part of the problem.
Obviously, the whales drowning out your content with their massive payouts is a bigger problem. Fixing a problem with another problem seems to be how people operate around here.
I don't even mind the minnowbooster. After all you can buy yourself into the pot. The much bigger issue is the closed elite-bots. They take away most of the reward pool. Even the payouts to the whales (when they give themselves a nice self-upvote) is a tiny issue compared. Sweetsssjs 500$ sef-upvote every 2nd day dwarf compared to the 2000$ every single bot takes away per day. As I wrote, even haejin gets a significantly smaller slice of the cake...
Good question: Do they exist? I've seen back-end developers, but the front-end seems not to be a concern. There are even (relevant!) opinions about giving up steemit as front-end and let the networking run via busy.org and other condensers to effectively split Steem and its applications. That is something I find absolutely idiotic because Steemit is the brand and nobody with his brains still intact dismantles itself without having to (well, Germany maybe but that's another issue).
Overall, I think the letting run Steemit out is the real reason why they don't put an emphasis on its further development.