You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: 🎬 Steemy - EP. 30: Steem Bot Tracker - Keep an Eye on all Upvote Bots
@schamangerbert Thanks for sharing your experience.
I am trying to firm up my own strategy for when I start posting.
Looking at how much some people are paying for votes just seems crazy on one level while being totally understandable on another. It seems like an addiction.
The user pays and get upvotes that actually costs the voter O nothing at all.
The User gets an endorphin rush.
The user re posts and does not get the same level of rush so they go back to the drug dealer to get another hit.
But the drug dealer never ever contributes anything of lasting value.
Its just the way I see it from the outside so far and remain open to other thinking on the matter.
Cheer
Hi @joe.public, I created the bot tracker site featured here and I made it because I personally find that the upvote bots can really help new / small users grow an audience here more quickly.
For one, if you have some patience, you can get positive returns directly using the bots - which is what my site aims to show. But additionally even if you don't get a direct positive return from the bot's vote, it gets your post more visibility which gets you more real votes and more followers which I think will easily generate a positive return in the long run.
Hi @yabapmat, thanks for your thoughtful reply, it looks like great tool and I plan to play with it, so i can do some more investigating on who is sucking the life from the platform and how much they draining.
However it does not really address any of my concerns regarding ‘for profit up-voting’
You may use it to boost your reputation, then use only bots with high reputation numbers, that makes sense with a 40 reputation.
@schamangerbert right now I am leaning toward not using them at all. It does not look like they are adding any value to the overall community. imho its looking more like an infestation of parasites