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RE: Do I Like Vote Buying Bots? No (Just to Be Clear)
The way I see it, voting bots are where you go to advertise. You’re not guaranteed a positive return but you can get noticed. If anything we need to have a mechanism that more quickly distinguished between “organic & paid” votes. It’s similar to how they say sponsored on Facebook. Then we can simply filter our feed based on preferences. This seems like the best solution. Give the users of the platform options as to how they want the make their way on the site. Personally, I don’t use voting bots. I’m my own voting bot! Lol But, I’m not necessarily opposed to voting bots. Thanks for the post! Resteem
Good Point. Great way to get your post to trend and get lots and lots of comments and new followers! Love your comment, following YOU!
If you want to assess if a behavior is viable in a community, you should think about it being applied through the community. So in terms of advertising, ok, if everyone paid to push their article to the top, then it doesn't matter. But this sin't the main purpose. The main reason people use it and continue to, is because they get a financial benefit, and not loss. If this methodology of buying votes was applies to the whole paltform ont he primary basis of making money on your posts where you wouldn't otherwise, then the votes would get saturated and buying votes wouldn't get you money. The main reason this works out for people is because few people use it. If it was implemented throughout as a behavior, then regular votes would not be given, and everyone would charge for votes. What does that look like for a platform? Success or failure?
Thanks for the reply! I do see your point. I even considered selling votes (not that I have much to sell), but to see if it could make sense. I think only more financially motivated people who have the will to overcome the management would sell votes. I think the average Steemit user probably won't be looking to sell their votes. I could be wrong, but I do agree that a platform full of vote sellers wouldn't be good! Thanks again for the post!
I see only failure. Especially when the flood gates open and all the people everyone is waiting for start to arrive.
Besides, isn't there a promotion option for content, anyway? I guess the potential of getting a return on your bidbot, if you figure out the math, find the right bots and time it correctly is a greater draw than a fixed amount or range? If it's truly about getting the post out there, than promotion would seem to be the way, but from what I've read, it's looked down upon.
Which is fine for me. I thought we were supposed to be moving away from pay to play to create/curate in an attention economy. Does that include advertising? It just seems like the marketers or third party folks that we've been relying on as creators in the outside world and trying to avoid here are still the ones in the middle, even if we might have more choice (many bidbots vs. one way to advertise).
I've agreed with everything you said in your post, by the way. Just need to keep moving forward and prove it can be done in a more organic manner.
Did you know that there is a function built into Steemit, called "Promote", that does this for you. The difference is that you're "earning" your promotion dollars back with low risk from a voting bot. So effectively the Voting Bots bypass the existing "controls" of the system.
Also, before voting bots, you'd see people spending $100 - $200 SBD (100 - 200 SBD, when it was worth $1) on Promoting their content. Now if you see someone spend $40 (i'm honestly not sure if it's 10 or 40 SBD that people are spending), that's a large Promote expense.