Is newsteem just trying to improve content and think that bidding bots are the root? I dont think that post payouts and trending posts have the best content. I think it's more about the how long you've been on steemit, how interactive you are with the community and how many people have added you to their auto voters.
Fact, some of the biggest shit posters out there get really good post payouts and into top trending cause they are super interactive and get lots of auto votes are maybe they have friends with deep STEEM wallets. All i know is that content quality is over rated when it come to post payouts and trending posts.
What else is newsteem goals? Apart from trying to improve content quality by downvoting posts what else do they do? I mean they downvote good and bad content and it's mostly auto downvote without checking the content using a bot. If this is the main goal, they are doing very poorly as there actions have nothing o do with content quality. If you spend a few minutes and look upvotes instead, newsteem upvote each other same as oldsteem did before, same guys. They already have there own clicks and circle of friends.
If you greedy person not interested in producing content that you are interested in writing, then you should become newsteem and get paid. It will require kissing dick and being a fanboy. So, all you would have to do is follow a couple of these big playa newsteem whales and see what they are posting out. Give well thought out comments, the sooner the better. The whales are most likely to upvote the first few comments. After you done kissing ass in the comments, you need a produce a post. Write a good post based on the same content that the whale wrote about, even tag them into the post and write about all the stuff you agree on together like you besties and to make sure they see the post. Of course they will agree and upvote your post cause they have recently wrote a post about the same thing. Rinse and repeat the process with different whales, after 1-2 years you'll have all the STEEM and be a regular trending producer. You can gain bonus points with these guys by following them around and defending them in comment wars they get involved into concerning their downvoting activities.
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If you'd prefer to stick to your smaller decentralized communities were you have a say and can write about what your heart loves, then your oldsteem. You'll not make as much money but your steemit experience will be a happier one with less drama. This is only my point view based on the what i have seen., show me something different.
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It will be interesting to see if this post gets downvote's even it i have not used any bidding bots service, maybe this statement will cancel them from doing it. Let's find out how decentralized steemit really is