RE: If You Use Upvote Services Please Read These Two Posts
yeah but you have to ask yourself - six months ago when you were using bots and only on the platform for a month or so - how much reputation did you gain by doing that? how many new followers did you gain by people seeing your posts?
It's unquestionable that it gives you exposure, because the way I find posts, is by first looking at my feed, and then by looking at "Hot" or "Trending" and if i find good content i'll click through to that author and follow them if they seem to deliver good content regularly.
and yes of course it hurts new users - I'm one of those. I see some posts get voted up to $200-300 and there's no way i'm pouring that much SBD to get that kind of exposure - there's always the risk involved that somebody downvotes your content and you lose some of, if not all of that outlay. It's almost like a game. And half the time the higher reward posts are all shit memes and photos.
So yeah, I agree that bots aren't great, but unfortunately the platform allows it and it has become wide spread.
I also think mortgages are fucking shit but if i don't have one of those I don't have a house.
"yeah but you have to ask yourself - six months ago when you were using bots and only on the platform for a month or so - how much reputation did you gain by doing that? how many new followers did you gain by people seeing your posts?"
Other than some reputation and some small monetary profits I think I didn't gain any (real) followers or any extra exposure. It wasn't like I had enough sbd to get my self anywhere near the top of trending, and the bot vote usually comes too late to get you in the top of the hot feed.
99% of my earned sp and rep points come from engaging with other people and communities. If I was to start all over from zero with what I now know, I wouldn't even spend a cent to buy a bot-vote.
Bots aren't a necessity, it's a parasite that profits only the early members and unless they take everything out and cash out in the near future, they will also end up getting fucked by them.
I guess we see things from a different angle, and we can keep using different words to make the same arguments :P
I guess it's one of those things that we can respectfully disagree on.
Obviously you've been around longer so you probably no the platform better than I in many respects, but I'd like to see examples of somebody that has built a decent account and profile without using any bots, investing significant capital, or recieved a large boost from one or two whales .
On a side note - bid bots are shit anyway - most of the time the bidders are running at a loss once curation is taken out.
@acidyo and he gives and gives and gives back to new users but once you start buying votes you exclude yourself from his curation team @ocd, you exclude yourself from a @curie vote and a lot of other groups that 100% spend their day looking for low value quality post by new users.