Every 2.4 hours, something In the region of 5 (conservative) million SP is giving a 100% upvote.

I knew it was a lot, but seeing this kind of number is jaw dropping. I know many I have interacted with not only use the bots (which was why I tried them for a bit) but also delegate for higher profits on their account. It would actually increase the votes of the smaller accounts who are delegating as they would have more reason to vote higher/or more since if they don't it is going unused, if most of the bots closed down for lack of customers.

I believe it is helpful that so many who have established yourselves have become very vocal on this. Many come here like myself full of ignorance and take many things at face value at first. The illusions and outright lies are probably just as costly to the long term growth of this site as the manipulation of payouts. I remember debating just a month ago why the bots were necessary for visibility, lol. Took some reading, and reading some more as I watched my own results to really get it. I do believe most using the bots do it believing it gives them low cost visibility, not some insidious plot to rape the rewards. But sadly, except for the big spenders it gets little to no eyes on ones work.

Much of this is perpetuated by how quickly posts are buried, which is why so many have to keep revisiting this issue daily like yourself and tarazkp. It would be nice if they could implement some type of system to pin posts, even if at first only to our own blog pages. A pinned area that receives no payout and one could continuously edit to update new developments. It would help those of you fighting the good fight from starting new at the bottom of the hill to push the boulder (your message) back up it again every day and take less time for those like myself to get it.