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RE: An Objective Look at Vote Buying Bots and Some Other Steemit Stuff
I don't use the bots myself, but it's just my understanding that the financial returns aren't really there, so I'm not sure if they are a valid reason to use them, really.
So, I'm just assuming that it's the advertising aspect of it all.
Well pretty much all the posts I've read have said the maths not longer works out, i.e. you don't make a profit. But, it can easily look like you do.
I used a simple bot for a couple of weeks that paid me 3 times what I paid it so I thought I was making loads. Then a friend of mine showed me the maths and I was actually losing money every time so I stopped and haven't bothered again.
It can look very attractive financially but it doesn't seem to work out well for most people.
Once that was known there seemed to be a shift to the marketing argument for using them and, as I say, I'm not convinced that works either. 😁