Absolutely agree, bid bots are the worst part about steemit right now, but how do we get rid of them. The separate flag power is not a bad idea, but we might see some massive flag wars if that happened. Who knows though, maybe it would work out.
There are only a few things keeping steemit from taking off:
- Difficulty gaining traction for newbies - usually persistent people do well if their content is solid though, I just think people are lazy or don't have a lot of time
- Bid bots
- Poor navigational abilities - no ability to sort posts by date or app used like zappl steepshot, etc, no ability to remove or sort out resteems from certain users, etc.
- Repeat posts - everyone talks about the same damn crypto news, it's really annoying
Other than that I feel like the experience is really great and natural feeling.
The trending page sucks, and I feel like very few people who have been here more than a month use it, but when new people show up and see what terrible posts are making money it's a bad look. We need some whales to step up until we have new solutions. If you've got over a million dollars worth of steem do you really need to keep stacking? If anything the value steem gains from being amazing after we work through this BS will be more than worth it.
The bid bot dilemma continues to baffle me, there has to be a good solution, I think this is the main thing that needs to be worked on right now
RE: The Heck is going on with Steem?