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RE: Something smells fishy about @fzek62442nd3 's controversial post?
There is so much shady stuff going with upvote bots. Many people advertise that they pay more than they do, @minnowbooster blacklists people that use the service too often and steals your money. Also, when you use the www.minnowbooster.net there is a glitch where sometimes when you do the captcha right it sends the money but says "invalid captcha" and just steals the money with no upvote.
Yeah, @minnowsupport totally screwed me over on their upvote bot. I hardly ever used it, made 2 posts in about a month, and they banned me from using the bot. These were not low quality or lame posts. It was some original content. I'd been with that group since I started on SteemIt. I didn't interact with a whole lot of them, but I wasn't "abusing" their bot in any way shape or form. No messages, no warning, and nobody even bothered to talk to me about what was going on - wouldn't respond to messages on their Discord server. IDK what the deal was, but I left their discord server and have never looked back.
More and more it seems you have to go it alone, nobody much bothers to read any good content that you put out unless you spend a bunch of money to upvote yourself, using bots, etc. Then some whale will come along and trash you for giving yourself an upvote, as if your 1/10,000 portion of the rewards pool is hampering everyone else's gains.
After 10 or 11 months here, I think it's a great place to do social media on - just don't waste your time investing a bunch of money into powering up, unless you've got many thousands of dollars to pour into it. Even then, you'd just have to worry about not accidentally pissing off some larger whale who decides to start harassing you and trying to tell you how you should be voting with your own investment - as if it's somehow their "right" or responsibility to bend you to whatever their own agenda happens to be. It's a senseless thing. Trading and investing in the STEEM token is fine - but the problems can really begin if you power a bunch of it up and expect to make progress as a blogger. Established personalities on SteemIt seem not to want anyone new coming into their space and getting any significant portion of the rewards pool.
Whatever the OP here is about, this seemingly strange situation, is just another example of someone with too much time and money on their hands, trying to make some kind of a point about SteemIt. I think the whole downvoting thing needs to go away to improve the mood and new users' experience on this platform. I see a lot of flagging is really turning new people off to SteemIt.
I had not heard this before. Thank you for the information. I think the problem with the bots is that there is no real quality control. Some do not filter worthless content, others promise stuff they do not keep. But as of now you have to live with them as they are the only way to get a bigger audience.