RE: 🗿Bot Talk and Witnessy Stuffs☯️
It's a hot topic, and one close to my heart because really I have been using the bid bots since they pretty much first started coming available - and they made a massive boost to my account. I do however appreciated how many people refuse to use them on principal - rewards for good content should be just that - a reward for the work you have done in your post - not rewards because you paid to get bigger upvotes. But getting your post seen just keeps getting more difficult - and the upvote boost from the bots will always give more visibility to a post and further upvotes. Right now the bot's are not great for ROI, mostly my rewards payout just about covers the spend cost on bots - with a tiny bit over. For reliability and hassle free upvoting posts I use https://smartsteem.com/ it accepts any bid range so you can do tiny mounts, guarantees double back on investment or you get the difference refunded - and it does not currently leave a calling comment on the post so is silent - which is ideal if you are looking to help people out but don't want them to know.
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My main point behind that part of the post is what you touched on. Getting to the trending and hot pages. With the prices getting more 'competitive', it's hard for real good content to even get seen anymore. I have tried using smartsteem a few times and the bids were returned, similar to minnowbooster - nobody available to fill the order :/
Smartsteem like Minnowbooster works by vote sellers setting a Vote Power level that they will not vote when they go under that amount. So all you can do is sit and keep refreshing the pages until the available bid goes up - then put your bid in and hope you grab available sellers before they get all used up. The nice thing about both is you don't loose money - they always refund if they can't supply. Getting the good content seen is a big problem, but you are by far and away doing a far better job of getting people to see quality content then any bot has or ever will.