I see your point about organically voted content, but I cannot agree with your statement that whales lied to me “for their benefit.” That’s a blanket statement which clearly does not hold true for many whales who have brought much to Steemit over these past 2–3 years. To assume that they are lying for their own benefit is simply erroneous.

Getting back to the content on the trending page, a simple scroll reveals many other posts besides mine. So, anyone who has no interest in my posts can easily scroll past them and find many different posts by other Steemians.

As for using bots so that “any kind of shit content can benefit,” I definitely do not promote or condone any such content. But it’s a free platform, and anyone is allowed to post whatever kind of content they choose – be it high quality or shitty. And they may also bid for upvotes on SBT.

As for my actions being “detrimental” to Steem or Steemit, you’re being very presumptuous when you say so. In fact, there are several actions that I regularly take that clearly benefit the community. First, I upvote others’ posts, regularly and consistently, both automatically and manually. Second, I have transferred a noteworthy amount of my own crypto into Steem. Third, I have delegated a good percentage of my SteemPower, in order to help grow both Steemit and the Steemit community.

As indicated by those above 3 actions alone, I brought in much currency into Steemit, and I continue to distribute it throughout the community. I did that for the benefit of the platform and the benefit of others.

Furthermore, my other “actions” involve about 2 hours preparation time for each post. I strive to make my posts interesting and informative, as well as readable and attractively laid out. My efforts are definitely not “passive.” Nor are they intended to “make the rich richer.” That goes against my inherent politics.

If bringing such quality content to this platform is detrimental, then there’s not much hope for Steemit, is there? In fact, if that were the case, Steemit would be doomed to fail, and would already be on its way into the dustbin of history.

I’ll do what I can to prevent such failure, by continuing to create quality content.

One final point. In your “Ultimate Guide” post, you write that Steemit is “still standing and there’s money to be made.”
But then in your comment above, you advise me to “stop the BS”?

Why? I may be a “talentless twat,” but am I not allowed to make money on Steemit?

You take away trending spots from organically voted content and you perpetuate the idea that its benefitial and better to delegate to bots so any kind of shit content can benefit from it.

@lordbutterfly I will begin by stating that your argument above suffers from a fallacy of overgeneralization. While I agree with you that some shit posters force themselves into the trending pages using bots, I disagree that all the authors who use bots, as you clearly insinuate, post shits. @majes.tytyty is one of such exceptions. And of course, there are a few other authors who pen quality posts and only use the bots to gain more attention.

Also, do you know that the bid bot industry on Steem is a multi-million dollar industry with millions of Steem invested in SP? Have you considered the economic implications on Steem should the whole SP powering the bid bots leave the platform?

The answers to the above questions should tell you that bid bots are not entirely bad for the progress of Steem. Most people like you, I fear, are just peddlers of a single story, the story that bid bots are completely evil.

Here in fact is a screenshot from your post that has a vote from @tipu, a bid bot.

Of course, my findings reveals that it was a friend of yours who paid for the service. Does his payment make your own post a shit post? Methinks otherwise. He did that to give your post a boost.

And permit me to remind you that this platform is a free and democratic community. Therefore, no user has a right to dictate to others how they should interact with Steem as long as such interaction is endorsed by the Steem top hierarchies.

I trust that this meets you well. Cheers!e