The Daily Bidbot Summary for Yesterday 4/18/18 - Who's paying the most for Bidbots?
The list below represents the 25 largest net transfers to bid-bots for the promotion of articles posted on Steemit yesterday.
Due to formatting restrictions, only a few columns can be displayed.
Note: Due to the complexity of certain promotional tools and their associated refunding mechanisms, some smaller refunds may be duplicated or missed.
What is this report?
Many authors choose to promote their posts via Bid-Bots. In return for direct payment, the bots will upvote your article. This service is fully "legal" on Steemit and used by minnows and whales alike.
There are many reasons why an author may want to purchase votes.
- Give the impression that the article is of substantial value and perhaps you should think so too.
- Cause the article to make it to the "Hot" or "Trending" category where it gets more exposure and more votes.
- Cause the payout to increase so that anyone that votes on the post will share in a higher curation pool.
- Attempt to make a direct profit on the vote by receiving a vote that nets more than the cost of the bid.
- Increase the authors reputation by receiving large SP votes. High SP votes move the reputation quickly.
- Support another author or entity indirectly through a Bid-bot.
The list is sorted with the highest NET amounts paid to the Bid-bots on top in descending order.
- From = The user who sent the payment to the bot.
- Gross Bids (SBD) = The total of all bids sent to the bots in SBD or Steem for this single post.
- After Refunds (SBD) = The net total of all bids sent less refunds received back in SBD or Steem for this single post.
- Article Payout = The total STU (SBD/SP) payout value of for the entire article (not just from bots). This is the total paid to the author and curators. (This is the $ value which shows on the bottom of every post.)
- Link is the direct link to the article that has been promoted via the bid bot.
Largest Net Bids sent to Bidbots and and other post promoters
| Date | From | Gross Bids | After Refunds | Article Payout | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-18 | @yallapapi | $305.90 | $305.90 | $591.29 | Link |
| 4-18 | @wavesplatform | $240.00 | $240.00 | $469.34 | Link |
| 4-18 | @corina | $210.00 | $210.00 | $412.52 | Link |
| 4-18 | @prameshtyagi | $193.00 | $193.00 | $401.96 | Link |
| 4-18 | @hiroyamagishi | $140.00 | $138.68 | $272.56 | Link |
| 4-18 | @splendorhub | $131.50 | $131.02 | $284.13 | Link |
| 4-18 | @majibullah | $115.68 | $115.67 | $222.89 | Link |
| 4-18 | @markdeheide | $139.70 | $113.88 | $234.03 | Link |
| 4-18 | @rishan | $105.00 | $104.34 | $188.42 | Link |
| 4-18 | @danyelk | $101.63 | $101.63 | $211.76 | Link |
| 4-18 | @bunnypuncher | $102.20 | $99.98 | $181.92 | Link |
| 4-18 | @techchat | $130.00 | $99.87 | $202.02 | Link |
| 4-18 | @stratilatkryuko | $97.69 | $97.69 | $208.52 | Link |
| 4-18 | @mahsumakbas | $101.00 | $96.00 | $191.49 | Link |
| 4-18 | @leftbank | $95.00 | $95.00 | $220.38 | Link |
| 4-18 | @chronocrypto | $183.44 | $91.72 | $237.67 | Link |
| 4-18 | @alaminhosssain | $80.00 | $80.00 | $115.57 | Link |
| 4-18 | @virtualgrowth | $86.08 | $78.98 | $214.78 | Link |
| 4-18 | @lexiconical | $95.00 | $72.12 | $143.08 | Link |
| 4-18 | @lexiconical | $95.00 | $70.85 | $145.01 | Link |
| 4-18 | @sourcherry | $98.10 | $70.69 | $144.64 | Link |
| 4-18 | @beastlybanter | $67.70 | $67.57 | $113.08 | Link |
| 4-18 | @transisto | $117.15 | $67.15 | $593.40 | Link |
| 4-18 | @alexko-steemit | $67.00 | $65.32 | $130.22 | Link |
| 4-18 | @intrepidthinker | $306.80 | $64.69 | $92.89 | Link |
Sometimes great articles get to the top because they are great articles.
Sometimes other articles get to the top because there was sufficient money to pay for that placement. It is up to the community to judge if the rewards pool is being properly managed and distributed in a fair and honest manner.
The wonderful thing about Steemit and the Steem blockchain is everything is transparent
allowing you and all those who care about this platform to be educated on how to properly use the platform as well as how to protect it.
As a result of digging even deeper on the longer term problems associated with bidbots, I have launched a new tool called @transparencybot, which seeks to bring more transparency and education on the use of bidbots to everyone.
You can read more about this mission here.
Please resteem this post if you think this information might be useful to the Steemit community.
@bycoleman
https://ColemanAir.us
Craig
Getting roi from bidbots has been killing me lately. Breaking my back for a a couple of cents of profit. It's a casino where the house always wins.
That is correct, the bots are the only ones making money (our money). They even get the curation rewards.
Everyone upvotes the posts that have the high payouts, but they will get nothing, the bots already have it locked up.
Hey, you just gave me an idea about how to make Trending worth looking at! Every day, I'm going to MUTE everyone who shows up on your list, i.e. everyone that you report used bots to defeat 100% human curating!
Thanks @transparencybot!
Now, that is a great idea!
Spread the word. I'll think on this a bit more and see what I can do as well to reward such behavior.
Is there any way to make this automatic? Can you publish a list of everyone who used bots to defeat 100% human curation, a list that is sorted by how much money they spent and that contains UNFOLLOW and MUTE buttons? A button at the top that says MUTE ALL?
Partially. I am working on a monthly summary with the top abusers of bid bots. It will show the totals they received in bidbot payouts and the number of posts they "promoted"
There is no means to add an unfollow or mute directly in steemit. But perhaps someday I will add this functionality on one of my servers. It is pretty complex since it involves user permissions and individual settings and configurations.
But who knows, we'll see which way the wind blows.
There has to be a way to do it. Hopefully someone will see this conversation and tell us how. When I go to someone's blog page, my browser displays a MUTE button. It's just HTML. I'll try to find some time to look into this myself, too.
The follow and mute buttons are not actually links, they are javascript commands. If you right click on them you will not see a "open this link", whereas you do if you right click on the search button.
It is possible it can be done, but would take some investigating.
You might be interested in this tool.
https://steemwhales.com/clean-trending/
Your initiative might just lead to greater things. We might be onto something here; a group of users who take control over their feeds and who aggressively use muting (facilitated to make it easy and automatic) to nuke the selfish people here effectively out of existence.
Keep doing what you're doing. I'm not much of a web developer but I'll do what I can to help put this together. Counterattack!
I believe it is a very solid plan that could easily gain a real movement due to the total frustration of the average Steemian who is watching the rewards pool raped daily by those who so short sited they actually feel it is good for the platform to take money from everyone else, since their article is quality.
IMO flagging people is the wrong approach, and I especially don't want to flag people using a list put together by someone else. 100% human curation also means 100% human flagging. IMO flagging should ONLY be used on a spam post; never to attack a person no matter how evil the person seems to be. (Some people here already see ME to be evil!)
The way to deal with selfish people is to MUTE them. Nuke them out of your own universe without harming them at all.
I fully agree with you. Tranparencybot does not downvote and never will. I do downvote hate speach, profane, cruel, unproperly tagged or other abuses. This I do manually as you suggest and generally let the authors know why.
Flagging is useful, when used properly. iflagshit would not have been silenced by a mute button.