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as you can see, i am much newer than you are, but i will be short

many steemians pay vote bots to give strong and valuable upvotes to posts they want to promote. It is legit at this moment, but it sucks most of the reward pool. You can see minnows who collected $150 on their welcome post, or some absplute shitpost,but in fact, most of it is bought steem reward.