What Are Your Thoughts On Up-Vote Bots?
So up-vote bots have been around for some time on the platform now. I want to take a quick pulse of the public perception now that we've had some time to see the use of them.
One thing is certain though, these accounts selling upvotes are raking in loads of steem...
If you guys have any opinion on these accounts please let me know down in the comments.
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Bid bot use have been booming lately which has let to over use that causes it to be so that profits from them are hard. I tested few of them some time ago trough steem bot tracker. Upme bot showed nice 15% profit possibility, but at the very last moment some one vomited 40 sbd bid, switching the rewards from +15% to -15%. I tested some smaller ones too, and I think at the end of the day I made small profit. I think alot of people don't realize that they don't make much money from bid bots, and are just trying to get rich fast.
WARNING BEFORE USING BOTS: @grumpycat has started to down vote people who use bid-bots that vote posts that can be over 3,5 days old. Reason for that is because some people were abusing those bots by buying upvotes at the very last moment before payout, making people incapable to react fast enough and flag those spammy posts.
To the topic of being mad at bot users. I think that this economy is rich gets richer anyway, so I don't see anything bad about it realy.
Oh wow I wasn't aware @grumpycat started doing that. I know he's waging war on everyone raping the reward pool (haejin) but that's a good point too.
The whole platform is definitely rich get richer but it's like it assumes the rich know better for everyone since they have more power. Whether that is a good thing or not, we'll see in the future.
I don't think it is a good thing, but it is not realy going to hinder this economy too much as after all we live in a very centralized world currently anyway. There is also one thing that kind of destroys rich get richer, that "forced delegation", and I have seen some statistics from that @taskmaster4450 showing that biggest guys are losing their share. But I still think that rich can just get riches, we see in the future more how it ends up.
I'm no whale, but I'm less likely to vote much on a post that already has a big reward and especially so if the big votes were bought. I can appreciate that it's hard to get exposure, but a bought vote is not a sign of quality, although the poster may have some feeling it deserves to be seen. Things are being messed up by people spending huge amounts (50 SBD+) on votes for a post. That can be enough to get them on the main trending page. To be honest, I rarely visit there as there's not generally much of interest to me. I rely on my feed as I follow a range of people and some of them re-steem cool stuff.
Anyway, dtube liked you post :)
It's obviously a lot warmer for you than here. Well below freezing today.
Thanks for the input @steevc, very interesting you don't even look at the trending or hot pages.
Yeah, it's a little cold in the UK right about now! South Florida is much warmer but I wish I had time to hang out at a tiki bar on the beach...
I just don't find much on those pages that interests me. A lot of it got there by self-voting or friendly whales, not necessarily for quality. My time is limited anyway.
I'm no whale, but I'm less likely to vote much on a post that already has a big reward and especially so if the big votes were bought.
Thanks for that... I've been having a discussion with one of my friends about this.. I brought up this exact point.
Hmm well that's a few strong answers. Thanks for the input. Interesting that you're less likely to vote on a post that even has an organic fat pay out on it.
I like to see the rewards spread out more. If someone already made $300 on a post they don't really need anything from me. BTW Dave has quoted part of my comment
Ah you're right I understand now... I thought that looked weird haha.
If you want to quote some text in a comment put a '>' at the start of the line. It looks like this.
Do I need one at the end of the line too?
No, just the start. Try it and you'll see it in the preview
Cool. Thanks.
I don 't like upvote bots it is not real