I don't believe bid bots will stop being a thing on steemit anytime soon. One of my personal favorites I use is @minnowbooster. I like it because it has a strong terms of service which helps to promote or "boost" only quality content. I also like @buildawhale for similar reasons as @minnowbooster. Because of the integrity of those kinds of bid bots I feel my content has more credibility being promoted by them.
I think bid bots are here to stay, unless there are major changes to curation rewards. The reason why all the major sp stakeholders are delegating to bid bots is simple, for profit. Because the current curation rewards are just too low and unattractive, using bid bots is the easiest way for them to earn passive income from their sp stakes. In the past, before bid bots, these high stakeholders will curate posts or follow curation trails, they earn 25% of their upvotes. But with bid bots, they now stand to earn up to 90%. So unless curation rewards are adjusted higher, there is simply no reason for them to not use bid bots.
It had been a while since I last used a bit bot. Those that I use and support are @smartmarket, @buildawhale, and @minnowbooster. These bots owners not only provide bot service, they are also active in the blockchain, fighting spams, plagiarism, and creating blacklist that is beneficial to the steem community.
I do not really have any problem with bid bots being used to upvote contents on steemit,but i am always finding it appalling when i see some spammers trying to
take advantage of the system and using bid bots to promote their spammy contents,i think that bid bots operators should create features that would help to
prevent spammers from using their bots to upvote their spammy contents,i believe if that is done then it will make steemit to become a better platform and it will
not make use of bid bots to negatively affect the steem economy...bid bots should not cancelled because there are some users that have genuine and meaninful
contents that just needs a promotional boost to get more visibility and users like that can simply use bid bots to bring in factors that would lead to more visibility...
I hate to say this but I think bidbots will be on this platform as long as untimely possible and will act as a primary means to boost one's visibility on the platform (sort of like Steem's version of advertisement).
Steemit Inc's version of advertisement, the Promoted Tab failed miserably as it is not at all profitable seeing it burns ones liquid Steem instead of going back to the owner like what the current bidbot system is now doing. Unless Steem develops a better way to advertise posts then bidbots will be in here for the long run whether the majority of people loves it or not.
Other reason why I think bidbots will survive is due to the fact that not everyone in here loves to write, blog and deliver contents to the blockchain. The top 500 highest Steem Account hodlers in this platform are mostly investors. Investors do not waste their time on doing blogs/vlogs or writing exceptional contents. Seeing bidbots have a high return of investment, all they have to do is just to invest on it, sit back and earn passively. They have it easy! :)
So yeah, bidbots will stay on this platform for a loonnng time.
I like to use @smartmarket and @smartsteem on occasion.
I am also whitelisted on @minnowbooster but I don't use that one as much.
I don't think that bidbots are going to be around for that much longer to tell you the truth.
My guess would be that they will stop being in fashion right around the beginning of 2019. I have no evidence of this though....it's just a feeling.
I don't believe bid bots will stop being a thing on steemit anytime soon. One of my personal favorites I use is @minnowbooster. I like it because it has a strong terms of service which helps to promote or "boost" only quality content. I also like @buildawhale for similar reasons as @minnowbooster. Because of the integrity of those kinds of bid bots I feel my content has more credibility being promoted by them.
I think bid bots are here to stay, unless there are major changes to curation rewards. The reason why all the major sp stakeholders are delegating to bid bots is simple, for profit. Because the current curation rewards are just too low and unattractive, using bid bots is the easiest way for them to earn passive income from their sp stakes. In the past, before bid bots, these high stakeholders will curate posts or follow curation trails, they earn 25% of their upvotes. But with bid bots, they now stand to earn up to 90%. So unless curation rewards are adjusted higher, there is simply no reason for them to not use bid bots.
It had been a while since I last used a bit bot. Those that I use and support are @smartmarket, @buildawhale, and @minnowbooster. These bots owners not only provide bot service, they are also active in the blockchain, fighting spams, plagiarism, and creating blacklist that is beneficial to the steem community.
I do not really have any problem with bid bots being used to upvote contents on steemit,but i am always finding it appalling when i see some spammers trying to
take advantage of the system and using bid bots to promote their spammy contents,i think that bid bots operators should create features that would help to
prevent spammers from using their bots to upvote their spammy contents,i believe if that is done then it will make steemit to become a better platform and it will
not make use of bid bots to negatively affect the steem economy...bid bots should not cancelled because there are some users that have genuine and meaninful
contents that just needs a promotional boost to get more visibility and users like that can simply use bid bots to bring in factors that would lead to more visibility...
I hate to say this but I think bidbots will be on this platform as long as untimely possible and will act as a primary means to boost one's visibility on the platform (sort of like Steem's version of advertisement).
Steemit Inc's version of advertisement, the Promoted Tab failed miserably as it is not at all profitable seeing it burns ones liquid Steem instead of going back to the owner like what the current bidbot system is now doing. Unless Steem develops a better way to advertise posts then bidbots will be in here for the long run whether the majority of people loves it or not.
Other reason why I think bidbots will survive is due to the fact that not everyone in here loves to write, blog and deliver contents to the blockchain. The top 500 highest Steem Account hodlers in this platform are mostly investors. Investors do not waste their time on doing blogs/vlogs or writing exceptional contents. Seeing bidbots have a high return of investment, all they have to do is just to invest on it, sit back and earn passively. They have it easy! :)
So yeah, bidbots will stay on this platform for a loonnng time.