Although I understand the motivation for using a bot like this is to maximize reward potential, bots like this are counterproductive as they undermine the purpose of the upvote. It's kind of like vote spam. Ultimately gimmicks like this fail in the long run because they don't create real value for the community.
I have to disagree. My witness project is dedicated to helping the Filipino community, and 90% of my votes go to them. This keeps them a bit more motivated to continue producing better blogs, and gets the community more attention.
When you say it doesn't create real value, how does it not? I preach constant reinvestment, and if they do reinvest in themselves, it keeps Steem and SBD on the platform.
And like I have said numerous times in my past blogs, this account will never power down. I also spend a lot of my own money boosting my blogs, to grow my account value which in return will allow me to give more money back to the community.
By utilizing upvote bots, it is essentially paying for advertising, and helping the boosters grow...which in return allows more people to spend their SBD on this site, to increase their account value.
The reason is is absolutely not spam, is because I choose the power and timing of my vote, and who to send it to. I think minnowbooster does great stuff for the community, but I feel many of their votes go to accounts that dont stay active.
My votes are staying in the Filipino community.
I hope this made sense, hard to write this and edit it while I am walking in a mall.
-Rob
hi sir i'm also your supporter , kindly see my post @mrblu thanks...^^..im a Filipino..im also friend of purepinay ^^ .i will also volunteer to be your witness..thanks and more power..
It's not that YOU personally are not producing value, and not that the bot isn't producing value FOR YOU, it's that a bot itself isn't capable of creating value for the community. Even though you set certain parameters it is not curating the content as a human would, so it is essentially spamming the system with upvotes. Unless you are going through and manually reviewing all the upvotes it's not creating real value. It's a simulation. Maybe it gets it right a lot of the time, but ultimately these systems break down because they require human input in order to continue to create real value for humans.
It's the best I can do. Sorry if I'm not steeming in the method you believe is best.
However, I'd much rather use autovoter for the community I want to help, over letting my voting power go to waste..
Especially when I am traveling, or too busy to catch all the blogs.
Manually, I can only read,reply, and curate so many blogs in a day. Steemit isn't my full-time job. It's not a perfect system.
It really doesn't matter what I want, it's not about me. You can vote however you like, it is you that this will affect as it backfires in the long run. It's same analogy as blackhat SEO versus whitehat. There is no perfect system and that is my point. Less is more my friend.
I agree with @steinstein. As an aspiring witness you seem to be missing the point of this platform, real engagement.
Rather, many people seem to be in a mad scramble to the top and using automated tools, regardless of how it degrades the quality of the community.
And I don't think you have paid much attention to the real engagement I have been involved in.
I reply personally to many comments, and never leave generic "great blog, thanks for sharing" posts.
It does not degrade the community. As I wrote in my blog, I do it so I do not miss blogs, and waste voting power. I also go back through, and check the blogs day in and out.
The bloggers that are doing better, I increase the voting power. And those that are slacking, I decrease and give them advice on how to improve.
Also, I am holding a Steemit conference in Cebu City, Philippines... Which will have 200+ members in attendance, and I am flying in 2 speakers from other islands.
My witness support lies in the Filipino community, and if you do not see that I am helping... I wish there were more I could do, with 24 hours in a day.
Rob
Being a Steemit Witness is for the whole Steemit community, not just a selection of people. Steemit witnesses improve the platform for everyone, are the ones that get the votes.
And I have to disagree. I pay $140 a month for the Steemit server, for the entire community.
My witness project is to help the Filipino community.
I'm definitely allowed to choose where to dedicate my efforts where they are most needed, and where my heart is.
Many witnesses have projects they are passionate about, this is mine.
How would you witness, if you decided to?
I have put my vote behind Steem witnesses that build features or services that the whole community can use. They also pay money to run their Steemit servers.
And those are technical witnesses.
Some, are social witnesses.
Who do you think is behind steemvoter? Or any of these other bot voters? Witnesses. Most, are in the top 20.
And you are full of it anyways...you only voted for one barely active witness, and you pull your money off the platform via power down.
Sure you are a good artist, how about you give back to the community in contests and teach newcomers how to paint?
Instead, you want to criticize my actions.