I am an actual human and I love this writing. Though... IS IT FUNNY? or is it a true vision of our distopic future? oooooooo
Also, I've yet to meet a bot who shames you for upvoting a post, only a comment. It might be coming, though. I guess I saw the one that mentions the top 100 $made on self-upvotes, but that's of little concern to we plebeian minnows.
Also also, it's nice to see that someone has noticed all the exact same things as I have. I wonder if it's part of joining steemit around the same time: July?
There should be absolutely no governance of content. Steemit will die shortly as people realize that their content is being abused by bots and the bots make money from it. At what point do people just say "no thanks" and stop making content? They will warn others of their bad experience too (I know I intend to). Now what do the bots do? Nothing to spam anymore so they devour the remaining minnows by tightening the rope and people stop using steemit. Now the bots chew on the dolphins, and then the whales which are impervious to attack because of the weight they hold. People didn't come here to be governed, they came here to incentivize their content without the censorship. Now it is censored by AI (just happened to me yesterday with original content). Bots are simply abusing people now. This is the Titanic heading for the iceberg, I hope this is changed. I am already powering down, and dumping any holding of steem or SBD.
That seems like an overreaction. I think that there are errors, certainly, and things like @cheetah bot are imperfect, but calling someone out on something isn't censorship, it's conversation. It might be annoying, but if/when I see that cheetah has tagged something, if the human poster responds that it's their original content, just posted elsewhere, I believe the human, and so no damage is done by cheetah (and I think good work has been done by it, too).
And I like gentlebot, which uses only positive reinforcement.
It's a zero sum game, which unfortunately means that positive reinforcement for one has a mild negative impact on everyone else, but overall, I think everybody gets to benefit... which means it's not a zero sum game? You know what I mean?
Anywhoodles, I'm here to stay. Even if steemit becomes just another blogging platform, I think the community of bloggers that are developing their talents here are enough reason to keep it going. The bots, at least like they are now, are pretty ignore-able.
Maybe I just have a higher tolerance for mosquitoes (bots that buzz).
Thanks :). Glad to know that other minnows have had the same observations. I tagged it as funny so that people didn't think I was actually being serious on account of so many truths being mixed in with the sarcasm.
If Steemit were a social experiment, I think one conclusion that could be reached is that some people have an inherent need to govern others. I'm honestly amazed at how quickly a utopian idea can becaome dystopian in practice.
For sure. I actually just posted about that. I don't know if it's inherent, exactly, but I propose that as a child, there's a survival level need to understand the rules of society, and as you reach adulthood and find that not everybody agrees on the rules, there's a bunch of chest-pounding as your identity is wrapped up in your version of the rules. I think we can get over it / be willing and able to coexist with a lot of grey area. It takes work, and it takes even more work to also stand up for principles that you think are necessary to a functional society.
Like, maybe we can agree that your desire to earn via bot curation delegation and my belief that that's cheating the system, while opposed, are still opinions that we can accept in each other and discuss rationally without needing to do something extreme, like leave the platform entirely if one or the other side "wins". But things like whether or not human trafficking is ok are things that, if we disagree, we might not be able to be in each other's presence anymore.
That kind of navigation can only be done with adult supervision (being an adult).
Here's the post, btw: https://steemit.com/advice/@improv/epiphanies-and-revelations