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RE: Voting bots... A problem or a resource?
I don't use bots that sell votes. I don't do it because they deplete the reward pool, and because I'm here to get paid for my blogging based on how much people appreciated it.
I realize I make this judgement from a position of relative privilege: I came to Steemit as someone with friends on the platform who support my work, and who have meaningful SP. But believe I'd be willing to put in the grind and make friends and create a brand new audience. Long term, that's how I build my little platform on Steemit, and that's how we, as a community, build Steemit as a platform.
I have no problem with voting bots that automate curation. I'm also okay with community bots that give a small boost to many, many people, such as @minnowsupport's bot.
I agree that growing steemit with people you believe in around you is exactly what this is for! I appreciate your dedication towards creating content that people will enjoy and no doubts you will find that community here. I love meeting the interesting and motivating people of steem it.
What are your favorite curation bots or perhaps ones you've ran across? Also what do like most about what minnow boosters voting bot?
I use Steemvoter to vote for two rl friends who consistently create quality content (@techslut and @poet). Minnowbooster and minnowsupport are different bots. I like about minnosupport (aka reg-msp) that it's a part of an overall community effort to help planktons and minnows. And that it gives, at most, one modest upvote per 24 hours per user, so it's not a drain on the reward pool.