RE: [AskSteemit] - How many vote-bots is too many?
There are other options, such as #whalepower, where someone actually reads your post, and, if it is good, upvotes it. I have seen a big bunch of people trying to gain prestige, power, and steembucks from promising to 'help' minnows by providing advice, and critiques (one even asked payment up front, as opposed to hiding under the banner of a resource group). This is sad. It is also clubbish, as in, 'If you are not known to us, we are not going to even bother to read what you write. We're saving our upvotes for our buddies, even if their content is crap'. Better to go it alone, join a facebook group (like Steemit Q&A https://www.facebook.com/groups/141980609711038/) where people actually try to help answer each other's questions and point everyone in good directions. What good an upvote if no one reads what you write? You produce content in order to have someone actually view it.
Great points.
Yea, its been fascinating seeing the rise of separate support groups for minnows. Whalepower, Whale shares, Minnow Support, etc. Part of me can't help but wonder if there motives are really pure, or if they are power (or witness-vote) driven.
It feels to me that if they worked together, they could add the help they are providing directly into the product of Steemit instead of separating it into different cliques with different solutions to the same problem.
And personally, I love each and every robot that reads my poetry. Ha.
I judge them this way: if they are also pedaling bots, we know what they are in it for.