RE: Want To Know How To Make It Big And Become A Whale? Swim Like One!
I definitely agree! I love seeing whales who interact with plankton :)
I probably won't continue using the bid bots (I read an article by @bycoleman ... it's just data but it basically explains why people ruin the ROI ... if they make it to the trending list, they stand to get back everything they lost times two or three or more.) In that aspect it does seem counterproductive because you're essentially placing a false value on content. I like the idea though of being able to give earnings back to followers, I just don't know how to do that. @abh12345 recommended I encourage followers to comment more and keep upvoting those.
I do like bots like @treeplanter. They upvote you, but you also get to help a good cause. So far I've only used that to upvote other people's posts but plan to start doing it on mine.
If you have any suggestions for helping followers (or like what someone else on the platform does), I'd love to hear about it!
Thanks for the mention. And yes, these big spenders really don't care about the ROI on the direct bid, just whether or not they can get to the trending list and up their total payout and their reputation in minutes instead of months. And it works very well, just is it right? I personally would like to see them snuffed out.
I'm looking a creating a bot that will total the payments made to each bidbot per post and post it on every article that uses them. I have to get a MUCH larger reputation before I can start, there will be repercussions.
So something between a bid bot and a flat rate bot? That sounds interesting! You should write a post about the idea ... I'd like to read more and maybe you'll find more support!
The bot is the easy part (see @introbot), but I may have said too much already, some people take their rewards steam VERY seriously. Keep a lookout, my guess is it will happen (even if I don't do it.)
Blessings!
I like it, would make it much more transparent, especially for those bots that don't post when hey get used. You probably would make some people quite angry though lol. I saw a pretty fast fund with Haejin early this month. Steem gets taken very seriously.
Yes, on the pretty angry part. Can you imagine being attacked by 50 angry Haejins!
I'm going to get my ducks in a row first.
Talk about account death. By the time I started following the action the guy had a -17 reputation lol. I don't blame you at all.
Wow, I had absolutely no idea that upvote bots could be that lucrative. There is some 5x returns on there.
The commenting and conversation has been what I've attempted so far. I try to start conversations and upvote really good content (like what's going on right here lol) and do the same for people that comment on my stuff. I also try to coment and upvote on the good plankton articles just as much as I do the whales and dolphins. My view is that it's hard to see one plankton but, a large mass of them can change the color of the ocean. Got to stick together.
I think key to the comment section is good conversation building comments, not the "excellent post, goodbye" junk that pollutes the comment section. I think fishing for upvotes that way could be just as bad for the platform as upvote bots.
I'm pretty new to all this so still learning. Maybe I'll figure some more stuff out and be able to pass on info on how to help good content creators and followers/followed.
Thanks for this conversation, I appreciate people who truly engage on this platform!