This post has received a 16.34 % upvote from @boomerang.

I agree and disagree with you . Bid bots arent bad , they are handled bad . There will be advertisers in future on the steemit platform (lets say ico promoters) . The only way for them to reach out is to buy bots . I think hive and futurer tech updates would reduce the manipulation u are worried about . Truely , we all are worried but i have the belief that its just growing pain. Meanwhile we can raise voice against all these bad actors and possibly form a flag committee or something alike. I know there are multiple bot working to catch misuse also , lets support them . Thank you for your inputs

Great and valid points. But if we look from the big guys perspective I think they have good in their hearts. But the only problem is the way they approach to it.  If we look to what happened to instagram we wouldnt want the same here though do we?

Really valid concerns. Some whales like to play god which is very wrong in my opinion. As for the use of bots, I don't really blame newbies as it's quite difficult to rise organically. Am on an organic growth and but for my love for the platform, I may have given up

Your very liberal mind, not life, can not be exceptional on the mind

Actually, my thoughts can not be worse
I do not really blame because it is growing increasingly difficult, physical and gradually growing. It takes time for us to understand, more so for us

As I see it is really complicated and this problem is going on for weeks now, but no solution. Whales are not supposed to use Bots as they have already high SP and their posts will rank to the top of the trending page. Bots are supposed to be for Newbies and Minnows.

All posts that were upvoted by bots should be in the "promoted" section. That way the "Trending" section remains clean and we will have less problems. Good content will be visible to everyone.

It is very difficult to remove bots from the system now, as they became part of it. But some rules can be applied to avoid any kind of abuse.

Besides the stuff you already mentioned, one big issue is the lack of new users, caused by the unhandy sign up process.If we can get more users on the platform, building more interest groups will be an ease. That said, steem has some problems atm, but i am pretty confident, that we can handle it in future.

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100% human curation.  That's the only future that is not a dead end future.  Once you permit pay-for-visibility, quality goes down the toilet and steemit becomes an advertising platform rather than a  content publication platform.

Keep it pure.  100% human curation.  Period.

Right point"Steempower vote buying is the only way to reach a broader audience. "

Thanks for taking the time to share your ideas and having the courage to do so.  What we need to do is make sure we are voting for witnesses that support what you believe about how this platform should run.  Recently, these bullies forced the bid-bots to adhere to the 3.5 day post age rule.  One could argue that is a good thing, but as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  We should have an inherent apprehension to any entity mandating certain behavior without consensus.  I also am NOT interested in crypto-communism.  I want this to remain a capitalistic system where one *can* pay for promotion services if needed.  A balance must be struck somehow.  By the way, the bots aren't as profitable as they once were either.  Profitability is only guaranteed for the bot owners, not the users.

That is so generous of you, yes life may not have way back exceptionally.

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hello there!!! it is too hard to go against the big ones.
this happen all the time.
good luck
have a wonderful day

you are absolutely right @therealthrawn...
how can we control the abuse of power use.
Sometimes i feel desperate about this.
it is nice to be here despite everything...

Hi
Thank you
For your writing
I've seen your writing come pretty much
I hope to write something better in the future.

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I'm a newbie here, I've been here about a week. I've noticed the disputes regarding the bot wars, but it's given me a big dilema. Do I use the bots and increase my chances of getting noticed. I may gain followers but run the risk of being downvoted and losing reputation. Or, do I not use them. In which case, I stand little chance of getting noticed any time soon. I've only written a couple on posts but I have noticed that they get buried quickly. I would much rather get promoted based on the quality of my work and infomation, but how do you get noticed without _cheating_ per-sa and using bots?

you are absolutely right @therealthrawn...
how can we control the abuse of power use.
Sometimes i feel desperate about this.
it is nice to be here despite everything...

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You're right. New users are very complaining about this. As long as Steemit is in beta, I guess it will continue this way. Thank you for your information and suggestion. @therealthrawn