As they say, bots are here to stay. You know how I feel about the paid upvote bots. I'm glad I didn't know about them before I joined, otherwise, it would be a turn off. So now I'm still here despite these and just focus on the good people and communities :)
Would be interesting to see witnesses and bot owners respond to your post. After all, they have the bigger influence and investment in this platform. Also looking forward to the witness interviews. I really need to review my votes (when I started I'm guilty of voting without thoroughly reviewing the witnesses' projects) because they have a big say in the future of Steem (which means our future too).
It seems like a lot of us would like to hear from the witnesses... it is nice to know that we had at least one @steemcommunity (which is @abh12345 and @paulag)... so we have one we can support and I'm sure we can find 30 if we work hard enough ;)
Yes and it would take research. I may have to remove some of my votes because I didn't really check on some when I started. I hope they don't take it personally though. I'm afraid of retaliation flags. But I'm small and doesn't really have an effect on them.
They won't retaliate on you for removing your vote... Now if you leave a nasty message on their page it might be a different story ;) ... Seriously no worries, you can change them at will anytime!
Yeah that should be the case. I'm just worried about flags. Like it's also something subjective. I have seen someone flag someone else (and all posts pending for pay out) because they disagreed on something and that was about bots. So I have these fears. It's a promising platform but scary at the same time.