RE: Transparency Bot -- A good thing until YOU get caught! - a tale of woes
So I did the next best thing, which was to go and upvote their initiative with my whopping .43 cent upvote. I think that makes up for the $60 in bids I stole from the rewards pool? Don't you?
Seriously laughed out loud at that...glad I wasn't drinking my coffee.
Odd way I found you, was looking at the comment left on my Pay It Forward Contest Post and it sent me down a rabbit whole that led to transparency bot's page and notice your post was resteemed by them.
Anyways I got the exact opposite message from them:
Got an upvote for not using bots! Had sworn off bid bots some time ago after realizing the way it effected the reward pool and how it was just taking part of the reward pool and handing it to the whales who are being to lazy to create content or bother to curate content to earn their payouts.
Anyways think we are both trying to help the newer members out with what we are doing. Will be following you and hope to find some good content to share with my followers.
See, and this is why I'm torn on the subject. I swore them off too...and then I saw that in a lot of cases they are doing some good for folks. Especially if they get into the right hands. But, I must say, this is a cool message you got. And if they're going to upvote people to incentivize them not to use bid bots, then I think that's about as good as it can get to change the tide here. We'd literally have to have initiatives like theirs all over the place to bring things back to a more level playing field where people vote organically and actually get something out of it...
That would be pretty cool if that were the case. Then rewards would not be based on who has the money bags.