RE: Transparency Bot -- A good thing until YOU get caught! - a tale of woes
The other thing I was thinking is that I really pride myself on helping really small minnows have a fair shake on here. My whole premise behind my discord channel and the show I do and the instruction videos I put out is an interest in helping noobs succeed and find their way around.
So when someone like me goes in and thunks down a wad of cash on a bid bod, it kills all the little votes and makes them earn a smaller percentage than they already were. Somehow, I know it's just "business" but it just doesn't align with what I'm trying to accomplish on here. So perhaps I should hold off on my big bot bids.
Then again, if I use bots to up my posts, and I have followers who are voting for me, it helps them grow. So I'm being loyal to them if I succeed......there seem to be two schools of thought.
I'm torn.
I wrestled with it for a while too. :)
I literally ground out my stake and I know you know it wasn't easy when we started either. I want to support hard working minnows, but I also want to do it with a stake that matters. It is a dilemma. At this time voting bots are responsible for less than 2% of the reward pool.
If someone is selling their vote and I like my content. I'm buying it, but I get there are different points of view.
Hmmm. less than 2%. Well, it FEELS like a lot more, as I remember I used to get gobs and gobs of votes, and money came a little easier.
But I still think I'll do smaller bids. I don't find any harm in it.