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RE: On Voting Bots
Excellent points, but one thing to note is that the vote buyers that are getting into trending end up losing money from the bidding, sometimes quite a bit, but they fully acknowledge the initial losses, and do it for the exposure. It does work for them, but to me it's clear that if native promotion worked better bid bots would have no reason to exist. (Okay fine there is the profit making angle but that angle was always a silly game that is more obviously detrimental to the system)
Oh, I was under impression MB guaranteed profits.
Oh, they do (MB / smartsteem does).
But it's not usually enough to send it to trending now. And it's very rare to get their higher value votes because everyone wants them. So what people are doing now is to send multiple bids to multiple bid bots, which take over most of the bid pool and make everyone in the same pool lose money (which is actually kind of hilarious when I think about it right now, because this is an example where the motives of people using bid bots are in direct opposition, promotion vs profit)
The promotion side also, if the trending is shit there is not much promoting to do, because no company will want to look at it.
This is true, unfortunately in the current situation trending still gets a lot of attention, and is still working for those people that are doing it (so I hear). But yeah, I feel like the kind of attention you get may not be the right kind anyway, because a global trending nobody's really sure what they're looking at. But there is still a chance you catch the eye of someone that matters, and that's probably what they cling onto.
And I will ask... is it just me, or has trending actually been getting better? (As much as we like to hate on it)
I think you are dreaming xd