The past few days/weeks have seen a lot of people put up their opinion about the services of the upvote delegation bot, either castigating it, supporting or sitting on the fence.
From what we can see so far, it looks like there is more support against the delegation bot, than there is for the upvote bot services. This so far has led to @double-u putting out posts to seek for votes for/against the removal of the delegation option.
For me here, when I noticed the @tomoyan and @upvu services, I did quite fancy it, but didn't really like the option. You had to delegate your power in order to receive upvotes, which means you will not be able to use your blurt power in favour of community curation.
However, we can't take away the fact that at least, @upvu services brought some posts and accounts that some of us may not really have seen before to the limelight aka the trending page.
What I'm driving at is, not everyone is into the delegation bot stuff for the money, besides, half of the upvote usually goes back to curators. It's very useful for projecting your important posts into the limelight. At least, it also definitely helps reduce the DM begging for upvotes.
Like I've put it crystal clear and out, I'm not really in favour of delegation to receive upvotes. How about one or two pay as you go upvote bots, probably run by the management team, or top witnesses?
All that needs to be done is to create such a service. @saboin or @tekraze or perhaps @eastmael can help out with that. Now mgt or top witnesses can delegate some Blurt power to it.
Whenever you need to make a post go viral, you pay for it. It's that simple. You want your post to go to trending, send 500 Blurt to the bot. The bot upvotes you, giving you 1,000 Blurt worth of upvote. Why 1,000? Because half of that goes back to the bot.
Now, since rewards are shared and paid out 75/25 percent, most people will have less liquid blurt for the service, which would thus lead them to go to the market to buy Blurt.
Also, with 75% going into your blurt power, the tendency to sell off quickly by spammers won't be there because even if they power down, they would more likely use that blurt to continue the cycle than to sell off.
In other words, it would likely increase the buying pressure of BLURT as both projects launched on Blurt and people who want some of their posts to go viral, will make use of this service.
Three advantages - support and see new publications from projects, remove/reduce support for delegation bots and increase the buying pressure for Blurt tokens. This is one hell sure way to keep everyone happy and help Blurt grow.
It's either this, or we go the sponsored posts route.
I do not support this type of service.
That's a hard no from me.
I have been part of anti-abuse groups on Steem and Hive who have fought hard to get rid of vote buying services because they are bad for the platform and its economy. I will not support any such service on Blurt.
I just removed my delegation from a few of these services because I hadn't realized when I delegated to them that they were this kind of service. I thought they were curation services that paid part of the curation rewards back to the delegators.
I will only support real curation initiatives where posts are actually curated (to curate means to sift through to find the best) by people who do their due diligence.
I will happily support real curation initiatives with my delegation and in other ways as well.
I like your opinion. I agree with you. In my opinion, the use of delegation only needs to be regulated, not eliminated.
Keeping everything 'manual', keeps everything organic - ensuring (imo), a steady increase in quality and distribution based on merit, not algorithm.
(the Achilles heel of steem and hive)
Not upvote service. No upvote Bot
yes, we don't need any upvote bot and these types of services.
While the delegations are gone, we can still use the beneficiary option.
Just while creating a curation list, add beneficiaries for those curated list.
It will work two way,
One support manual curation
Two, help creating a content guide for people to explore
Third, help those people grow with the beneficiary value plus making them famous because of mention.
But i do not think we should now, support any services.
Automated service may not be ideal, but I think there should be ways to boost and retain demand for BLURT in one way or another. I think more discussion is needed about this issue.
Maybe setting a limit for delegation could mitigate negative effect of automation to some extent.(For example you can delegate no more than 50% of your BP.)
I support the delegation. Because if a user does not give the delegation then that user will not get the vote. Because those who have big users do not support ordinary users properly. There used to be a lot of curated IDs from which support was given. Now all curator IDs are off. Moreover, stee and hive delegation systems are in operation.
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