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it's the most effective strategy now that's why people are using them. The only way to change is as it was intended is to make fundamental Changes and incentivise manual curation. I only manually curate, never sold my vote or autovoted and it's very effective if You use it preoperly and are taking advantage of Tools like SteemFollower. The bid bots aren't the problem they way the system is structured att and as You say it's very hard to get noticed without them atm...

Reko_3

It is hard, though I feel it my duty to myself, to get noticed and supported for the right reasons, and not just because of a perceived notion that my writing is worth more than it actually is just because I use bots, I can liken it to haejin, he has a perceived massive appeal based on 1 up-voter, that has got him 25000+ followers in 9 months. Take away ranch and he is left with a hundred 0.00 to 0.01cent votes. Is it the right way to go for me (no bidbots) only time will tell I suppose. I added you to following and look forward to talking to you again.