You are pretty brave to share this, at the moment I just don't know what to do about vote selling and buying. I mean I will have no visibility posting something, unless I buy some votes. I can post a thing and expect around 3 people if I am lucky to read my article with a return of 0.06$. Even after 140 days here I still have so low visibility and this is the reason why I buy votes.
Your article right now made me wonder if this is right again and I think about it for some time. I guess I will just give up on it, especially as lately I haven't even get the money I have invested in return...
Hi there. Your parting line is what caught my attention- this is exactly the problem with these vote buying ventures, they are designed to make those at the top rich, they are not designed to actually help people like you. I was here many months before I started to do well, I will tell you this- if I had chosen to use bots when they came out instead of continuing to work hard and network, I would never have done well. I haven't used a single one, you can look at my account and see where that got me. I didn't pay for one sp of that.
If only everyone would choose to give up on them, then people might have a real shot again here.
Me too. Following the recent post from clayboyn and then this, I'm convinced that voting bots is a complete waste. I'm gonna rather use the SBD to buy Steem at the market place.
If you are going to stop then this post was worth my time, even if you do not flag the post I speak of.
I understand that it is difficult for new users. It didn't used to be, before the vote-selling. And it will only get worse in future if it continues. But, I and some others are working on giving people like you an alternative option to what has been laid out for you.
You can be dancing monkeys, or you can be humans. I know which I would prefer.
I think it's pretty clear that very few people from healthy economies deal with the bs and unless they hit their stride early they just leave without saying such things, so as to not damage the chance that they can silently return in the future if it ends up being a profitable venture yet again.
Yeah, you are right, I will stop using voting bots and encourage others to do so. I will resteem your post for visibility (even though I only have 500 followers) and tomorrow I will make a post about voting bots too. Thank you for having the courage to share this with us!
He is not right. If you look in trending there are without the bots only accounts with a rep of 70+. The bots are the only chance to get somewhat seen. I do not use bots anymore, but I used them for a couple of months to help me grow.
Don't listen to this person. They don't even know what they're talking about.
I'm sure that I know what I'm talking about. You try to force people into not using bots anymore, I'm poiting out that this is a free market and everyone can do what he wants and if a bot helps why not use it.
It is not because of the bots harder for new user but because of the amount of new users that registered 1 year ago there was a post every couple of minutes, now there are 10 posts a minute. It is mathematically clear that chances to be seen are so much smaller. Bots only help them be seen. Without the bots there would be 4 times haejin post daily in trending.
If the whales had continued to vote on the best quality content, as intended, then there would be far more dolphins able to reward those newcomers, especially because our power has also increased with the value of STEEM and with the linear reward distribution.
I do not want to waste much time on this comment because I am about to address it in a post anyway, but I think that you ought to refrain from telling people I have just convinced not buy votes that I am wrong, because it is evident to me that you are blind to a significant part of the picture. I hope that my next post may serve to enlighten you.
Okay, I am really waiting for your next post:)
I'm only telling that trying to convince people to stop buying votes is wrong. Every indiidual is different from another and everyone has his own way of approaching things. You exposed your view on the matter and I expressed mine. I'm for the free market as Steemit is only a part of the blockchain. The platform needs investors to grow and one way to attract investors is by bots where they can store the SP and let it work for them. This is why I invested in SP for example. Half of my SP is bought. I'm not powering down and every Steem is used for a power up. SBD I take out and invest in either other accounts or other projects.
Why is it?