PSA: When using @ocdb, mind the beneficiary cuts of the dapps you're posting through

It has come to my attention that there are a lot of users purchasing bids from @ocdb for certain posts that are posted through dapps, now even though I throw them a warning or letting them know it's usually cool since most dapps out there like steempress or d.tube only take a 10% beneficiary cut which is the same amount as the somewhat guaranteed @ocdb ROI so in a way it's +/- 0.

Lately though there's been a few users that have been using ocdb on some art posts and thanks to steempeak I noticed that @ntopaz was taking a 10%+5% cut on each of them. Now this is obviously okay as each dapp can choose their own beneficiary cut but what I found weird was that none of the users knew about this and obviously using our fully non-profit distribution bot were just losing rewards and their bids on these posts. Out of curiosity I went to check if it states on their website about the beneficiary since none of the few I asked about had any idea. There was nothing in the Faq but what I did find was this page, but let's just say that it's kind of hard to decipher what the percentages shown on their page actually mean (feel free to judge for yourself).

Again I'm not trying to hate on this project and I don't even know what exactly happens with the beneficiaries, maybe they are somehow brought back to the artists or the delegators or something (it really is hard to translate what their images even mean with no added text to these details) but I wish they would make it more clear as it seems many posting there are not aware of it and especially those that may be using bid bots, @ocdb or others onto the posts which just means they might be losing out on even more rewards percentage-wise than they realize.

So unless you're posting through steemit/steempeak/busy(when you click off the "share 10% of rewards with busy button", you're probably paying a beneficiary cut to the dapps and using @ocdb will most of the time mean it is for nothing. Since we have a queue so "promotion/visibility" is usually not a reason to use @ocdb it makes even less sense to use it on dapps that take a cut, unless you're trying to get the dapp's attention or bots that will front-run your bids, but that's a bit far fetched.

So just thought I'd let you know and hopefully projects will be a bit more open and obvious about these things cause if they seem like they're trying to hide these details it'll just make it look worse for them in the end.

If this is the first time you're hearing about @ocdb, check if you've been curated by @ocd in the past and made it onto our whitelist here, which would make you eligible to purchase 10% profitable bids for your OC content.