Front running bid botted or other popular posts was a viable strategy back then. A lot of people weren't paying attention to curation under #oldsteem. That's why I could make 15-18 STEEM per week by auto-voting carefully picked popular or heavily bid botting authors (I never upvoted shitposts, though). Now I seem the able to make a little over 20 STEEM per week despite curation rewards being 50% instead of 25% of content rewards.
Yah, I knew this for a very long time now, even before #newsteem.
It wasn't the case before #newsteem.
Front running bid botted or other popular posts was a viable strategy back then. A lot of people weren't paying attention to curation under #oldsteem. That's why I could make 15-18 STEEM per week by auto-voting carefully picked popular or heavily bid botting authors (I never upvoted shitposts, though). Now I seem the able to make a little over 20 STEEM per week despite curation rewards being 50% instead of 25% of content rewards.