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RE: A post of very little value.

in #steemit • 7 years ago

Have you done the math yet once one of the posts you have bought upvotes for paid out to see if you actually made any profit? I know with minnowbooster you usually will see a (small) profit but with most of the vote bid bots the average user actually loses money by the time the curation fees are removed from post payout. While there are lots of abusers of the system, I am not sure @transisto is one - this isn't as clear cut as you might assume (as you will find out is the case for many things on Steem). He was actually a leading opponent of self-voting abuse for a long time, and has only recently started self-upvoting as a way to fund some project development that will directly add value to Steem. And yes, I know this post I am linking does not spell out what that is - but I am 100% certain that what he is saying in this post is legit: https://steemit.com/steem/@transisto/temporarily-pausing-my-anti-abuse-efforts-while-sbd-is-off-the-chart

Curious why you linked the @fredrikaa post? SteemPress may be the single most useful thing for growing Steem I have heard of since joining the platform...

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  • Past Payouts $0.26, 0.00 TRX
  • - Author $0.20, 0.00 TRX
  • - Curators $0.06, 0.00 TRX
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     7 years ago 

    Thanks as always Carl for the great feedback.

    The math is pretty clear, the payback is well above the cost, so I'm surprised it is not abused even more.

    I'm not picking on anybody, there are hundreds of requests into the bid bots at all times, @fredrikaa is not doing anything that everyone else on these bid bots is not doing. For this particular example, a lot of SBD was paid into the post by @devfund to fund this post by @fredrikaa, -- @devfund funds a lot of his post so it is pretty easy to make these connections.

    I believe we need to lead by example. Just don't love these types of examples by leaders. It really makes the little guy feel abused. I plan to donate my profit for this post back to the people here on Steemit and I'm really hoping that by discussing this openly can help this abuse be curtailed dramatically to allow true quality to be noticed and rewarded.

    Perhaps I''m wasting my time and those in the know don't really want the word out and I'll get spanked for it.

    Thanks for listening!