in my point of view it's everyone own choice to decide what to do and what not. If you are waiting for bots to give you upvotes and followers and pay for that service while you haven't done a research first then i will be harsh and say serves you right. Ofc someone gonna debate this with the argument i pay for a service and that service isn't provided back to me and i will reply again you got what you deserved
Why in first place you all try to find the easy way? ( that's not something personal i am talking in general and i hope to reach the new steemit users checking this, i don't even know you to be exact :P ) You need more followers and more money?
Then the answer is make quality posts and go interact with others. comment them, so them that you read their posts or at least most of it and get to know them better. Also try reach them in the chat and talk, it may be harder but longer term it will be more valuable and after that you gain so much people following and cant check all their posts, at the ones you deem that worth you can use an autovoter
Personally i haven't paid a single $ for an upvote bot and obviously never used one and never will, i prefer to read what i upvote as i did now so whether he is a scammer or not the final click it's everyone's own choice and if the scam is or will be that huge i bet someone will put an end to it!
I wanna clarify again that i haven't choose any side in this and just stated my opinion instead of a ''good post'' :P
I wonder if you read my post at all... Since this is clearly not about the use of vote-bots. An abuse has been found with a vote-bot, yes. But it's about the fact that tens of thousands of dollars have been claimed for spam posts without any consent. Simply put, there has never really been paid for those votes.
Thank you for outing this.
i actually read it. Basically what you said it that one person with multiple accounts took advantage of the bot and earned way too much money. I on the other hand took the chance to talk generally about the specific bot that these days many contradictory posts are made. The relation in this is the ''easy money'' once again as i mentioned. Most of the people paying for the service believe they will earn easy money and followers while at the same time someone took advantage of something that found out or thought for ''easy money'' again. In other words trying to make easy money out of everything leads nowhere
It looks to me you do not understand the problem at all, @filotasriza3 . We are not talking about bots or buying upvotes.
We talk about someone launching a buggy bot, which is depleting the reward pool in favor of a useless shitty post publishers, who do not even have to buy anything, not paying anything at all. And the bot owner does not care about this at all.
The valid question is only one - who brings more damage to the system? SHIT POSTERS, SP delegators or buggy bot owners? Or all of them in equal degree?
and what's the main root of all these questions and the possible answers? easy money, everything starts from there. i get that the buying upvotes and the usage of bots isn't the issue here and i clarified it, i just wanted to include this to state once again where everything starts and why. I can't understand how an obvious question like this is the only valid one and the answer is none of the above. Everything you mentioned harm the steemit community but depending the case today a shity poster may harm more than a buggy bot owner and tomorrow vise versa. The real question should be what we gonna do to erase these behaviors and a possible answer is mentioned in my first comment that is out of subject but i really appreciate we have a dialog and you replied instead of just swear or don't say anything at all
@filotasriza3, you could be Mark Twain or Ansel Adams and your content will never go anywhere here. Your amazing post or story will go nowhere in the trending section because it's riddled with Whales having a circle jerk voting on each other's content. It's why I see pictures of concrete walls with some taken from some random children's book with massive $300 SBD upvote.
@adonisabril i don't think i shown any signs that i disagree with what you are saying and i can add that in trending section not only you can see what you mentioned but posts that nobody read with a bunch of upvotes from people who gave their posting keys just for the curations and the ''circle'' if you wanna talk more about me send me at steemitchat i think it's tiresome to keep typing here as the only one who can bring a solution to the post's matter is the owner of booster