RE: If You Use Upvote Services Please Read These Two Posts
I don't believe your math is correct. Many bots are actually a loss from the original investment. But let me address the math first. My first post for example a couple of weeks ago says it earned 1.74. The breakdown on that came to .67 SBD and 0.17 SP. The remaining says curators got .4, how that was broken down I have no idea.
So let us say I spent 1.74 SP to get that in upvotes. I don't see where I am making all this mad profit at. It looks like a loss to me, but one I incur because it gets eyes on my post. If I don't incur that loss, my post scrolls off the page into oblivion within 30 seconds (not making this up, just now I looked and all the new posts before it adds to the page was 31 seconds and less).
This problem with visibility will only compound as the site grows, just as we saw on the Kindle platform with self publishing. The bots were a predictable result, as the promotion companies like Bookbub and Freebooksy are to self publishing.
Contrary to what some are feeling here, the bots are necessary in my opinion. And these ideas of mad profits sure haven't been the reality that I have been seeing.
Too bad when the site grows more, bots will be only an option for well-established members that already get votes by other people. I hope you have become one by then otherwise you won't be able to afford them.
depends of course on the bot that you use, but if you're getting 1.74 worth of upvotes, you should not be paying 1.74SBD. you would be paying more like 0.6-0.7SBD.
That's why you think my math is wrong.
And yes - the problem is absolutely with visibility. one of the first things I noticed when I came here is how damn hard it is to find content. They should have a similar structure to reddit.
Even I agree that it is very hard to find a content here and curate. In that aspect the platform should improve a lot.