RE: The Biggest Mistake I've Made on Steemit: Using Vote Bots
I tried using bidbots in an experimental way for a while, and I thought I was doing well and making a bit of profit on them. But when I actually totalled up the amount I'd spent on them vs the amount my posts earned, I found that I'd made an overall loss! It was quite a surprise - and during that time I had published a couple of unbotted posts. One of those posts had attracted a Curie vote - so the earnings on my unbotted posts for that period were significantly higher than on the bidbotted ones!
I published this post on it about a month ago.
I found it quite exciting using the bots, but I don't think I'll use them again. I think some people use them repeatedly to build up their Steem Power, but I personally think there are more interesting and creative ways to do that.
But how do you build up your Steem Power by using bots? You could just use that money to directly buy SP, no?
Also, you're just much more likely to get a Curie upvote when you don't use bots. I've heard that they don't tend to upvote posts that have more than $5.00 in rewards.
EXACTLY! That's what I figured when I was using the bots and losing. My SP was growing - but I realised that it would be easier just to buy SP directly. But some people prefer to do it the bidbot way - and why not, I suppose, if it works for them :)