Maybe a stupid question.. but how do you know the votes are bought?
I would like to see that people who actually try to make quality content getting higher up..but the most I see on the trending pages are either advertisement or people with a high number so it doesn't matter what they post they get upvoted into an oblivion..
But that to be said ... I use the partiko app and it makes it much easier to interact with followers and to make nice posts
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You could try looking at the upvotes. If you see names like rocky1, buildawhale, booster, promobot etc. Then the post has been upvoted by bots.
You can view all the bots on this site: https://steembottracker.com/.
What you can do, which is even easier to do is to go to: https://steemwhales.com/clean-trending/
This site provides the percentage of upvotes from bots.
If you want to know which posts are actually earning the highest rewards. Go to: https://steemit.com/spam/@steem.organic/test
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Hope this helps.
I will check it out !
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