Newsflash: Jerry Banfield upvotes latest by over $1200+

OMG, Steemit is AMAZING and yet the balls of some people. In Jerry Banfield's latest attempt to convince us he's developing a STEEM -> FIAT system he casually upvotes his post to the tune of more than $1200.

However, some of us aren't that stupid and when we see a comment like this...

Which suggests a massive upvote from one of the biggest upvote bots in the system, and we start to ask questions like 'How big is that upvote?'

And it doesn't take much time to find a corresponding 21% value upvote from PostPromoter which according to a previous upvote is worth $361.

So when you do the math, you realize that a 71% vote costs about $1200USD from PostPromoter, but wait, there's more.

This isn't the only bot upvoting this post.

As you'll see Buildawhale is also an upvote bot but I haven't been able to confirm the upvote amount so I can't comment further.

Now it's quite incredible someone has this much balls to upvote this big given the current 'Haejin' drama at the moment.

However, unlike @haejin, Jerry at least tries to form an argument in his long winded post even though it feels like it's just a replication of the localbitcoins website which was pointed out many times in the comments.

@jerrybanfield certainly does have his haters on Steemit but also has a lot of supporters and its clear his main goal is to become a top 20 witness so he can collect the 260 daily STEEM (currently worth approx $1700 USD) as a reward for being a Top 20 STEEM Witness.

And as the developer of this app needs to have or maintain a witness server it's clear to me the intention here is to have the developer eventually vote for @jerrybanfield so he can leverage another large witness vote to move him further up the witness ranks and eventually to the money faucet.

And Jerry never misses a trick to promote himself, as his upvote bot subjects you to a massive link SPAM attack when you use his service.

It's a pity that someone with so much energy can't understand he's polarizing the community with his behavior.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with upvoting bots in general and will use it myself as a way to stand out from the crowd. But excessive upvoting it just asking for trouble.

Perhaps if @jerrybanfield gave himself a $100 upvote to start the ball rolling and clearly outlined this in the post, then maybe we'd have a true reflection on whether the community believes this to be a worthy idea or not.

Afterall, he does command nearly 25000 followers, so surely that is enough to give his post the value it deserves.

And I suspect when the down voting is complete he would have wasted his $1200 upvote and made a few more enemies along the way.