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RE: How many of the upvotes are done by paid voting bots?
I keep meaning to find the time to do that analysis. But it's pretty difficult as:
o There are many kinds of bots / purchased votes - those on steembottracker but also things like minnowbooster (which upvotes through different accounts so is harder to track, although possible) and "black market" vote sellers too.
o Working out the value of the votes rather than the number of votes is a heavier calculation if you want to do it accurately.
I'll get to it one day!
I think we as a community should come to understanding how bad is it.
Economy of steemit is of great importance and often neglected by developers of the project.
Users are actively using their SBD and Steem through bots making them the only crypto that is actually used in a functioning economy. Isn't that good for Steemit as a whole?
Steem indeed is the ONLY crypto where you 100% understand why you buy it.
Bots are the application where you could actually spend your crypto and enjoy the service they provide.
But is this healthy? I am not so sure.
If they are used to promote quality content they are a good thing in my opinion.
But I see the worst content upvoted for more than 50 SBD. I think the bot owners have a responsibility together to keep Steemit as clean as possible from these content farmers.
But if we can tackle that problem I think paid upvoting is a good thing and makes Steemit into a functional economy for quality content.
What I would find interesting is which group is using these bots more. Are it the already established Steemians or is everybody using them.
I do have a feeling that it would be mostly used by the more wintered Steemians and the usage will decrease when going down the foodchain.
Also requested this at Penguinpablo, if it is possible to dig this up.
Great work guys.