RE: Upvote Bots Continue to Fuck Up this Platform | SEO's Say Steemit is a GREAT Backlink Factory.
The basic use of bid bots is because it can make people feel better about their posts showing some $ value. Everybody's out here trying to earn money with some people posting good content some short memes and whatnots and everyone feels their content is good quality.
Some of us know that feeling of when our quality or well-researched long post don't get noticed or upvoted by the curators/big fishes. If this happens of course our only option would be to use bid bots to feel better. It can be kind of cheating ourselves but that's how bid bots give value to people's posts. I am not a heavy user of bid bots at all but I did try them.
Another use of it is for post promotion when it gets to the trending page. People do read the trending page. And as you pointed out, only those that have their own sites to promote and the money to pay for bid bots here to go on the trending page will benefit much more from using them. We mere red fish/minnows just don't think that way but you've just given me an idea. Hahaha.
Hey @artgirl appreciate your comment and feedback on this issue.
In regards to everyone thinking their content is quality, I don't think that is true. I think some people know they are putting out poor quality content but its just a numbers game or they are lazy and aren't looking to put in effort. That said I think there are a lot of well intentioned people here who do put in effort.
I don't like Bidbots and what they are doing to the platform but I do use them because it's become a necessity. Like you mentioned, it sucks to pour yourself, your time, and energy into a post and have it disapear with not only no money but not even comments or views and it feels like your writing to nobody so that is where bidbots do come in handy as you can get some extra eyes on your post and hopefully other people enjoy it and share it or resteem it.
Well some people do think they post quality, quality posts they've plagiarized. Haha. Lazy people will find ways but they will be found out here. That's the good thing about Steemit, lazy people can get flagged for spamming and plagiarizing. :D