RE: [Steemit-Discussion] Bots. Are they good or bad?
First off, @minnowsupport doesn't charge SBD for upvotes, it's a free service of the Minnow Support Project.
As for the rest of the upvote bots, I don't have a problem with it. And I don't think the people behind them will take the money and leave steemit. They receive curation rewards on the posts they upvote (as well as the SBD/STEEM people send them) and the more they invest back into Steem Power the more successful they can be.
@cheetah is cool although it can be a little too tenacious when it comes to someone posting a series where the previous posts may have used similar language or content. It seems as if you have come across this problem personally. I think people tend to misunderstand @cheetah, though. When it comments on your post linking to similar content, it isn't necessarily accusing you of plagiarism and actually it upvotes you. Only if you repeatedly plagiarize content does it blacklist you and then it downvotes your posts until you follow the link and clear up the issue with whoever is behind it. So, no need to worry about cheetah unless you are actually doing something wrong!
Yes, I agree with you, the welcome bots are quite annoying. I would much rather upvote/reply to someone who took the time to actually read my introduction post and leave a REAL comment.
Thank you for your reply.
Minnowsupport doesn't charge SBD every time, although you have to pay a (very very little) amount to get a registration. That one is one of the good ones though!
I don't think the people behind those upvoting bots will leave Steemit on short term, but it might end someday and then they can cash out. It's a doomsday scenario ;).
You're right about Cheetah too, it does bring up similar content and the one thing that 'frustrates' (Sounds heavy but my feelings are way less) me is that it brings up your own content. Its something you wrote yourself so it shouldn't get the attention of Cheetah. Only when you copy paste from an other author or a source from internet.
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Yeah, totally agree about @cheetah. It should have a way to differentiate between your own posts and others'.