Easy for you who has 70 reputation, 400+ Steem Power and almost 3K followers. A minow like me who started a little bit more than 2 weeks ago has no visibility. I'm lucky that some curators and a whale noticed couple of my posts but that's it. So thank you @minnowbooster and @minnowsupport for making my posts going a but higher for more visibility and giving me few cents (I can't even bid more than 0.1SBD at a time...).
Also I can buy vote for someone else’s post because my upvote is worth nothing.
Maybe if there were no bots at all, then I would fight even with the other and not get drown amongst plagiarists and copy/pasted stuffs. But bots are part of the landscape so if the others use them then I'll use them too until I get enough followers and SP.
My reputation number and my steem power are both things that I worked for. I didn't buy my way to those numbers. Also, 420 steem power is not very much.
That wasn’t what I meant. I didn’t even thought you bought your way up there. What I wanted to point is thinking that all bot vote buyers are producing bad content is not correct. I’m probably not as good writer as many but my content is decent, however in a topic that is not yet popular on Steemit:
https://steemit.com/trending/vermicomposting
https://steemit.com/trending/wormfarming
I have made my way to become admin or moderators of several worm farming groups on Facebook, one of which is 12K+ members and another is for commercial worm farmers. I know my stuff and want to share the knowledge. By the time my audience gets into Steemit, all my important posts would have been more than 7 days old.
You have been here since 2016, there was no much shit writers here like we have now. I understand that it was still a challenge and all respect to you to get that high reputation. But if you have to start with a fresh account today without anyone knowing who you are, how long do you think you can get back to this level? I don’t want to wait that long to start getting something, I will stay that long probably but want to start getting something right now.
420 SP is not very much, but it is still much higher than my 18SP. I have upvoted your reply making it worth... $0.00
I have written a long detailed post on my topic and it was not visible, not many upvotes. I’ve written another tutorial, many upvotes but super low payout.
I would like to power up and make most of what I can share with others before I burn out my pool of knowledge in the topic and have to start writing about something else that is popular but I don’t necessarily enjoy.
So when you flip “me” the bird because I’m trying to keep my head above water in this new environment, I had to respond.
Even @teamsteem approves the use of upvote bots. @jerrybanfield has his own upvote bot. Are they ruining the platform? They have vested a lot in the platform and done a lot for it outside of the platform.
Well, if you buy votes, fuck you. So yeah.
THIS is not worth $600:
And THIS is worth more than $2.
I can't get any more clear than this.
And if you're DEFENDING buying votes, you're fucking muted. I don't want to know you.
A lot of my posts are also worth more than $0.50 and yes the second photo is worth much much more, I used to do portrait photography for 6 years back in the UK and I appreciate good photos. But i still stand for what I said. As long as bots are not banned and other people use them, I will use them too to be fightig equal rather than sitting and looking them making $$$ for shit content.
And it’s funny to hear you talk about damaging the platform when you seem to milk it. Being here since 2016 and having 70 reputation, you could have been a whale right now. But no, you just keep milking the SBD (and that’s your right) and leave only 420, enough to upvote and make more $?
Anyway, enough arguments.