Steemit's Got Issues!
Bid Bot Abuse
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Bid Bot Abuse
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Today's Topic:
Bid Bot Abuse
Bid Bot Abuse
So, this topic has been hot lately. There are a ton of bid bots now and people are seeing it create some changes on the platform. Some for the better and some for the worse.
My intention with this post is to convey to you an ample description of the issue, in its entirety. There are many factors surrounding this issue that are being overlooked and/or swept under the rug. After reading this post my hope is that all of you will have a very educated understanding of the issue as it is today.
All that said, let's get started.
First of all, what is bid bot abuse?
Abuse of bid bots, put in simple terms, is using bid bots for sheer profiteering. Using them in a way that rapes the reward pool.
Some people have portrayed black and white definitions as to what constitutes bot abuse.
Here are some that i have seen:
- Using bots to upvote spam content.
- Using bots to upvote shitty or undeserving content.
- Using bots to upvote posts that are older than a certain amount of days.
- Excessive use of bots.
- Like people making 10 posts per day then using bots on all of them.
It is easy to look at this list, and on the surface, believe that each and every one of them is absolutely accurate. However if you dig deeper into them you will find out that that is just not the case with some of them. Life, as well as this issue is just not black and white.
I'm going to address these issues in a moment but I want to get something else out of the way first.
There are some people on the platform, that would like you to believe that people are just stripping rewards from the pool at an alarming rate. People posting a picture that is not even theirs and running to the bank with massive payouts. The first question i want to ask is are they?
So...
How much are the "abusers" actually profiting?
Well, lets just look...
In the last round of my bot, @sneaky-ninja, there were several people who bid and got a vote. Out of those I'm going to illustrate those that bid only 1 sbd because 1 is a very easy number to calculate and show.
So, every person that had put in $1 last round for @sneaky-ninja received an upvote of $2.35.
Whoah! That seems like so much profit at first doesn't it?
That is until you start doing the actual math on it.
After taking out 25% for curation they are left with $1.76, still seems pretty good but let's keep going. So then this 1.76 will get split. They will get .88 sbd and the equivalent of .88 in steem. However, what is the equivalent of .88 in steem? Well right now since steem is worth just over $6 usd, this will decrease by roughly 6/1. Meaning that the remaining .88 will actually only be .15 steem once it pays out.
Ok so lets add that all up...
We have .88 sbd plus .15 steem. So, this person that has put in $1 gets $1.03 sbd/steem after payout.
Wow, this is some serious racketeering! These fuckin guys are bankin!!! Holy shit everybody, lets all start doing this and making a potential 3 fuckin percent!! Find the worst pics you can and start posting guys! We've got loot to make! LMFAO
Anyway, as you can see, even the people that are actually abusing bots, attempting to make large profts, simply are not. Now, I will say that just after @yabapmatt came out with his Steem Bot Tracker, there was a period of nearly a week where people were using this to gain profits of about double their actual sbd plus what they gained in steem power. That time is long past though and now the profits look much more like the example I just gave for most bots actually. In fact in some cases the bidder may even lose a small amount.
There is the occasional time that someone will bid during a round that far fewer people have bid. During these uncommon times you can see actual profit from them.
The bottom line is that if your idea is to use bots for pure profit it will not work the way you intend it to.
This basically leaves this issue of bot abuse null and void, though I will continue because there is far more left to look at.
All of that being said, they do find ways of making profit in the long run because some bids will profit and some won't. Also, even if they don't profit, they are pulling from the reward pool for spam or scams so it is something we want to stop either way.
One more thing...
Many bot owners, in fact all most all of us, have discussed this issue countless times to try to come up with some sort of resolve.
We do profit from them and it is a business for us. However, we are not the greedy, power hungry monsters that some would like you to believe. We are regular people. We want to see steemit grow and become great just like you do.
I personally have formulated a plan that will all but eliminate these abusers from using bots entirely. The plan is not the focus of this post so I will not be sharing it here. However, it is peaceful effective and will not spark more flagging wars as we have been seeing lately.
Ok, now lets get to the real meat of the issue.
I'm going to cover some of the more common things people see as abuse.
1. Using a bid bot to get a vote late in the 7 days allotted for voting.
I'm starting with this one because it is definitely the most talked about currently and there are many people here, like @grumpycat that would like you to believe that using a bid bot late is a black and white example of bot abuse...
However, it is not!
First of all, the system allows for votes to come in for posts up to 6 days and 12 hrs. This system was designed for a reason and it essentially is the actual law regarding it.
Second, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to vote on the sixth day. Here are but a few
- What if you simply did not have any sbd to buy a bid for your or someone else's post until then.
- Many of our users are from countries where money is hard to come by or simply do not have much. Steemit provides these people ways to make enough to survive, to feed their families. It brings them hope.
- You want to surprise a good friend or maybe just a stranger with an undervalued post by voting or bot voting their post on one of the final days.
- A simple gift.
- You want, or need a small payout quickly so you look for the most profitable moment and exploit it.
- Again, some people do not have much and a dollar or two guaranteed to come out tomorrow could be a meal for that day or help a person get medicine or something.
- What if you made a post, waited for it to be voted on, but it never did.
- This can feel very daunting, I know, I've been there.
- How could it possibly be wrong to want to see your post make just a little even if it is from only you?
- Using a bot for this can make you feel good whether you profit or not. There is much to be said about seeing your post have money on it vs. having none regardless if it is actually profiting or not.
This is not, by far, a complete list. My aim here it to show that the issue of voting late is not black and white. There is so much grey area that we cannot just put a blanket rule out there to shorten it. If it were 4 days in the system, you could bitch about people voting on the third day.
The truth is that voting that late in many cases is not smart because you simply may not get the return you expect as so much will go out to curators. However, it is not our job to punish stupidity or ignorance, only to root out abuse.
We have an economic society here on steemit. It is absurd to think that someone would not want to use this platform for profit. The line is drawn when they are using abusive means to achieve that. If you have a good post and want to invest into yourself for a small profit no one should be able to say otherwise.
A lot of people say, and I agree, that the best way to use a bot is to promote your post. Buying a vote when you first post as a means of getting your post to show in hot or trending. With how hard we all know it is to get noticed here this is a very great way to use a bot. However it is not the only way by any means.
I want to touch on something else here for one moment. When I started @sneaky-ninja it was meant to be fun. Fun for me and fun for the bidders. He was given a cool persona with stories and everything. In the very beginning I simply had a decent amount of power and would look for good posts that had not made much by their sixth day.
I would pick stuff that interested me and that I could enjoy reading. Then I would leave them a big vote with a comment from me saying "sneaky ninja attack!". I thought it was a real fun way to reward great content right at the end when that person was likely assuming the post they had poured their heart into would just not payout.
I made so many people happy by doing that, that I decided to look into making it a bot. So for me personally, I truly believe in allowing people to vote on the 6th day and even bid on bots on the 6th day. This is something I stand very firm on regardless of threats or insulting comments.
2. Using a bid bot to upvote spam content.
Alright, this one is a no brainer. The truth is that since there are no rules here on steemit, and that people power is their power, they technically have the right to create and vote on spammy content.
The greater truth is that basically none of us like it. Spam sucks and clutters up everything. I am very happy for teams like @steemcleaners that focus on uprooting this type of content as well as farms and other abusers.
That being said, in my opinion, spammers should not be allowed to use bots at all and should be reported to steemcleaners. This is why I actively build and grow @sneaky-ninja's blacklist as well as share blacklists from other sources. It is not perfect yet but is getting there. In the very near future it will much larger and more effective in fact.
This is also why there are people now working on building a shared and unified blacklist that can be used across steemit by all bots and other services that would benefit from it. It would allow many people to be able to add to it and would grow quickly without huge time involvement from any one person and basically eliminate bot abuse all together.
Eliminating these account from using bots is at the forefront of my plan.
3. Excessive use of bots.
What I mean here is the people that are posting like 10 times a day, usually also with spam content, then hitting all of them with bots. These guys are likely actually making profit as they are doing so many that it probably averages out.
Everyone has the right to post 10 times a day if they like. This in itself is not wrong or even grey. I'm not sure how they do it but I have seen accounts that create actually entertaining posts and still do it 10 times a day. However, if it is spam and clearly abusive then it should not be allowed to get votes from bots and should also be reported to @steemcleaners.
4. Using bots to upvote shitty or undeserving content.
I have to be candid here. This one is actually grey. Some people are simply not very good at this. Considering the many reasons listed above for voting late it is not really up to us to judge them for not being very good. However, as a community we can help them understand how to be better at posting quality content. There is also so much here that is subjective. We do not all like the same things. What is crap to one person might be funny as hell to another.
For this issue, my suggestion is a schooling system. Something that would alert them that their posts are not up to par and give them time to learn how to write better. Maybe even link them to posts with pointers on how to get better. Give them a couple times to start getting better and if they don't, temporarily blacklist them until they begin to get better. This allows the honest ones, that just need to learn, a second chance and the others will simply not be un-blacklisted, effectively eliminating the possibility for further abuse from them.
Thank you all once again for joining this discussion and adding your input to it. As a community we will grow and with one voice we will speak and create necessary change.
@michaeldavid
Master of @sneaky-ninja
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proud member of:
@michaeldavid
Master of @sneaky-ninja
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Are you the owner of this Account?
In my modest time on this platform I have seen and experienced many things, few touch me quite so much as your own journey. I wish in many ways we could make it required reading, for new and established members of the Steemit community to learn and understand just how much you sacrificed to help and support this growing community. It is easy to miss this post on your blog https://steemit.com/thealliance/@michaeldavid/what-the-alliance-means-to-me but also essential reading because to understand any one person you have to understand their journey. Regarding content, I'm the worst my content is weak and to get my posts noticed I need the bid bot's to boost them. They are a life line for those of us who post something, it might not be an incredible literary story, an incredible picture set or insightful musings - but being able to get some one to notice them can make a massive difference.
Wow, thank you so much.
It has been a struggling journey here. I'm still facing adversity here even.
Yes bots are super helpful for many of us. I still use them as i am not nearly as noticed as it seems lol.
Thanks for your commitment to the Steemit community and serving others. I connect with your message about there not being "black and white" rules.
Admittedly, I do not agree with everyone but it is not my place to police everyone's actions and behavior. There are some actions such as scammers/spammers that we need to address as a community, but it seems like we should be able to work together to make those types of changes.
Well worded response. I totally agree.
Unilateral policing is not worthwhile. However acting as a community about obvious things is great.
We don't have to all agree, only coexist :)
Like most controversial issues there is more than one side to it, and a lot of grey matter rather than black and white! Good description.
That's really true.
Thanks!
I certainly hope that soon, there will be a peaceful solution and the crazy wars, flagging and all that stops...
Thank you for all you do!!
I really do also! It may involve changing the reward structure.
Great Start, @michaeldavid!
Perhaps we can come to a reasonable solution with people like you leading the way ;) I have an "OP-ED" piece brewing in my mind, maybe it will see the light of day... Time will Tell!
M.D. ... Is that why they call you "thedocta" :D lol
A reasonable solution is all we need for this issue and many more to come. It's all about bringing them to the table and opening the discussion from the start.
As far as being called The Docta:
Hmmm... I'm sure if you pay attention to the steemitcomics from @enginewitty you may find the answer you seek. :)
I have a plan to create a bot that only accepts bids from accounts with more than three numbers in their names, like hammakaresh34856. I'll invest like five grand and pay out huge for the first week. After that, all bids will go directly into my unfortunatley out of control alcohol budget. I'll get to finally die of alcohol poisoning while also bankrupting all the abusers. All I have to do is learn how to code to create bots... or whatever the process is to do that...I have no idea. I can't get my fucking remote control to work. I tried to sell drugs but I suck at fractions and don't know how the metric system works. I can't do anything right. Are you happy Dad? I can't do anything right!
Fucking hillarious!
Bwahahaha! I needed that.
Awesome wasn't it? Lol
You are my hero :)
haha, thanks
Hi Michael,
It was a great read. I read till the end. Some fantastic points in there. Some I agree with, some I don't. But it's a discussion so I should add something useful.
Voting late happens on crappy content because receiving big votes on older content doesn't bring it much visibility. The trending and hot feeds prefer fresh content. There is a lot of grey in this activity.
I was looking for a point on reputation score algorithm abuse but I sadly found none. The way reputation system works, bid bots are massively responsible for tearing apart the very fundamental reason of its existence; distinguishing those who add value from those who don't.
Would it be not iteresting if the blockchain, for one week, shows reputation scores not including the effects of bid bots? Can we imagine how many users will drop by how many numbers? I'll drop to 62 I know. I know some who will drop from 63 to 40 may be.
I think the only abuse happening right now is the working of bid bots itself. I prefer content promotion services like @minnowbooster and @smartsteem to bid bots simply because they promote your content at an expected return rate. Bid bots have been profiting a lot due to excessive bids because they do not return the bids when their capacity to vote for existing bids is filled. @honestbot is a ray of hope in this regard. It returns your token if it can't vote with enough value.
I know people, including me, who are tired of reporting spammers and scammers. But as a community, we need to keep doing this. @themarkymark goes to great lengths to find out and cancel abuse of reward system. You care about it too. Anyone profiting from the gift economy of Steem should care.
Please add your opinion on reputation algorithm abuse as well because it is important. Thank you!
Thanks for joining the discussion!
minnowbooster is a bid bot with a fancy name and different coding lol. you bid, you get a vote, bid bot. Also, the return from minnowbooser is all over the place and you have no way of knowing what it will be. I love reggea and what he does, but it is one of the reasons i dont really use it anymore. Way to unpredictable for me personally. Other bid bots you can get much closer to knowing what you will get back using @yabapmatt's bot tracker.
Though it used to be a big issue a couple months ago, the issue with excessive bids has been solved also ever since @yabapmatt created his bot tracker. People very very rarely over bid now.
Bid bots are clearly not the only abuse here. the worst abuse on steemit comes from spam accounts, account farming and unnecessary self votes of large whales actually. Far more coming from these places than bid bots. In fact I was just going through steemcleaners blacklist yesterday of over 5500 accounts and as I went through it was clear that they were largely account farms and spammers, most seemed to be farms.
Bots have had an impact on the rep system this is certainly true. However it is really flawed to begin with. You can get a good rep just from being friends with a whale and getting one or two votes from them I've actually proven this physically. That clearly should not be a show of real rep. This needs updated somehow. Possibly to include the idea of bid bots being here.
I don't see bots as having abused this, instead i feel it is simply flawed to begin with. You can bring an account with nothing posts to a rep of 50 super quickly by just voting a small number of times on posts from it using a higher rep/sp account. I've seen accounts hit 45 rep in their first post actually from this exact thing. I've also not seen much benefit from having a high rep other than what it can do for someone if you upvote them.
Currently we share blacklists among several bot owners and I believe @themarkymark is a part of that. I'm also about to start using @steemcleaners entire list of abusive accounts (currently over 5500). I'm actually converting it into a form I can use right now and will also be sharing this list with other bot owners.
The only abuse I see from bid bots is the abusive accounts that have had the chance to use them, which myself and many other owners are actively remedying. In reality they are helping minnows out a lot. It's actually helping re balance some of the older issues we've had here with many whales simply not helping minnows in exchange for only helping themselves or friends. Which is potentially why certain whales are upset by it lol.
I know what you mean about being tired of reporting spammers and scammers. I also believe that when it comes to bid bots, we as owners of them are responsible for rooting them out of our services since we are the ones voting on them. This is why myself and @sneaky-ninja will now be working with @steemcleaners. We will be on air discussing this tonight at 12pm utc (7pm est) if you want to listen in.
There is definitely a lot of grey area in voting late. It is for that very reason that we cannot make a blanket, black and white rule that it is bad. Some are abusing it and some are not.
Actually, fun little side note... There was an account called @abusereports just started that is showing anyone voting on the sixth day. I was pleased to see that since that account has started there have only been 2 votes from @sneaky-ninja on their lists. :)
I cannot agree more. Absolutely true. No form of abuse is bigger than spammy content getting rewarded and vote farming.
I meant that people are using bid bots to tear apart the essence of reputation algorithm. Having higher reputation certainly helps because it is a social signal. Any social signal helps users get attention (and votes). I would still voice my opinion for upholding the purpose of reputation system.
Regarding having a shared blacklist if you will, I think it is an absolute need at the moment. Any people who are handling abuse should collaborate. I know @therealwolf is using blacklist of @themarkymark for regulating SmartSteem. More collaboration is needed. Steem Cleaners' 5500 strong list is gold for fighting abuse.
I really appreciate your thorough response. I also appreciate your concern for the integrity of bid bots and reward system. I share the same concern but you well placed to make things happen. Best of luck!
I totally agree in having a reputation system. I just feel it needs altered/ tweaked so it's better.
About bid bots, I would really like a little honesty like the @honestbot. Return what you can't vote for. If 100 % vote is worth $230, return bids after 100 SBD have been sent (supposing the bot is designed to vote worth at least $2.3 per SBD). I would really appreciate that.
That is just advertising man... the truth is that ever since @yabapmatt created the bot tracker no one ever over bids.
Its not like it was when bellyrub was here anymore.
I agree and fully support your decision in this case, i just recently started using bots and find it massively helpful and encouraging to get good post i literally spent all day on to have some type of value and help with curation with the people who support me. Its hard and i know you know the struggle and happy to have you and your talent on the platform bro.
be well
@michealdavid
It's really true. They help so many people.
Keeping them free from clutter and spam is essential though.
so true, full support here
I disagree. You still get the benefit of increased reputation from any upvotes. You are effectively able to buy reputation by using bots.
This is true. however the rep system is clearly flawed anyway. You can get the same thing from charity votes from whales or any account with a good rep that votes on you even if your posts are shit.
I've actually seen this in action. You can take a nothing account and get it to over 45 from only one or two votes from a high rep/sp account.
This was an issue long before bots and needs to be updated somehow.
True, it is also very vulnerable to Sybil attacks.
I'm not sure what sybil attack is?
People make multiple account that use their upvotes to just upvote each other, artificially increasing their reputation.
Oh, I've seen that called account farming
It's highly controversial. I have seen even people with much higher reputation, use bid bots to take their post to trending page, and the post not having quality content. Quality is subjective in definition as you said, and certainly you cannot do anything with those whales, if they use your bot or some other bot. The whales even just put a small comment and upvote that. Its all about Money, whoever has investment here, can do whatever they want.
Of course you can build your schooling system, but when there are other bots who does not follow the same ethics, ultimately you will fail. And who rewards you to build such a schooling system ?
Very solid points!
I've been mulling over a solution for these posts like you say that are crap but use bots to get into hot or trending. I don't have all the kinks worked out but it would involve a lot of manual viewing of bidders posts each day. I can only speak for my bot but I can say that after I implement this massive blacklist and begin working with steemcleaners that I personally would be willing to hire a team to root out this type of thing then put it in front of the community for vote. In other words, if my team saw a post like what you describe we would make apost and let the community decide if it is worthy of a vote or not. If not the vote would be pullled. Like i said, many bugs still to work out but it's a growing idea.
As far as the schooling system, I would implent something of this nature for my own bot once I had a good plan of attack. As far as other bots, If I was able to show it in a working model I would offer them to use my team or they would at least have a model to create themselves.
Ya, that's a good point, if you can show the working model, then you can offer that to others.
one step at a time :)
Using bid bots is on my list of things I will never do (along with smoking by the way 😉 )
But now I'm rethinking.. I might be the perfect way to force a friend accept a gift. Or to help a friend in case I think he deserves a way bigger vote than I can offer with my own VP.
I'm still never going to use them for my own posts 😊
It's good to have ideals.
Some people just don't like them and that is fine.
I like your idea of using them as gifts. When Sneaky Ninja first started, before it was even a bot, people were doing just that a lot!
Hahahah, good sport <3 xD
As I was reading your post, top solution for me seemed to have actual people to check up on content that is upvoted, especially if it's upvoted with larger sum of money.
But that could lead to scale-ability issue in future & as you said what's bad content for 1 person, could be good for another.
Either way, good shit <3 Curios to see solutions you guys will come up with..png)
Thanks man!
We're definitely moving forward on the issue.
Dear sir, I have transferred 3 SBD to @sneakyninza for the post having URL https://steemit.com/information/@poojakum/how-to-earn-usdusdusd-on-steemit-part-2 I get comment but upvote is missing.
Hi, I always appreciate the help of the Ninja, is very helpful, but the last bid, I send 4sbd and I received a vote of 6.56, isn't strange? See ya, tanks for your help.
Normally it would give more like 8 for a 4 bid. I've set an roi limit so it should not get overbid again. Though it does look like that is what happened here.
Thanks for letting me know. I'll keep an eye on it.
Yes, the limit was active, I have the photos, was strange, tracker say like 8 and busy sat like 6
strange. not sure what happened.
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Awesome upvote
Thank you for the thorough and well written piece @michaeldavid.
I am new to the whole bot thing and have just started to give it a try. I tend to agree that people upvoting spam or bad content isnt the best - I think it goes completly against what Steem is trying to achieve. It should be that through curation rewards the best content is found and rewarded.
I think that bots have a place for people like me who are 'Minnows' and need an extra boost to get noticed. It can be frustrating when you create what you think is an excellent post (sometimes spending hours writing and researching) and only make a few cents. I agree that it can be sometimes encouraging to keep going if you use a bot and make a bit (even if it is from you like you said!).
Upvoted and following :)
Well said. You rock!
Thanks for the support.
Comparto, lo que dice el Post, es cierto yo he participado en unas tres pujas pero al final nadie gana y todos pierden.
Solo ganan los Bot. ero según esto pasa porque las mesas no se cierra cuando el ROI ya es 0 si no que sigue abierto y se va después al negativo.
It's not about winners... it's about resolve.
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following
even if it is a bit late to comment, but I am really appreciate your concern on the issues. and for me personally it is a new think since I joined this platform 15 days ago. Thank you very much
regerds
@el-nailul
We are taking steps forward this and many other issues.
Thanks for joining and hang in there!
Trying to survive actually. thank for the spirit
Trust me, I know just what you mean.
Good idea and good information. Thanks for your commitment to the Steemit community and serving others. 😉😉
You bet! Keep up the good fight.
@michaeldavid hello bro
i like this and i am vote
please sopport me to
I understand where you coming from, and indeed, it are not the buyers who profit a lot, it are the users who rent their SP to bots, or use their own SP for their own bot who profit a LOT. Before we could rent out SP to vote bots, we could use SP to give a vote to some post, own or some other users post. Now, a bot vote giving 2$ on a post may get 1SBD for that vote, which is a lot more than any users could get when manual or auto voting posts and comments.
You also seem to move all issues to Steemcleaners. Well, that is a very simple way out, dump all issues onto them. I can tell you, Steemcleaners is by far not taking care of all the abuse. For what reasons, I don't know.
How cool would it be all the SP in the hands (own or rented) by bot owners to be combined and given to curation teams! Curation teams are more and more required to give votes to better content, whatever 'better' means. In reality, curation teams are loosing their SP, from users who gave/rented some of their SP to curation teams in favour of renting it out to vote bots.
Your calculation on post/comment rewards is wrong btw, the profit is even less, when SBD has a higher value than 1 US$. That said, the profit to the bot owner on a SBD based bit is larger.
What a particular hate (to use a very strong word) is when people try to bring a story! I don't know you, and I have nothing against you personally, but you brought a story. Why am I saying that? Well, because you brought half the truth, and not the complete truth! Of course, that is allowed. Nobody has to be objective when bringing their opinion and knowledge, but it is misleading and it reduces your own credibility when creating posts like this, at least in the eyes of those who understand the topic from left to right.
You are not making any sense. It could be the language barrier, not sure.
First of all, People have been delegating their SP for a long time here. Bots were no where near where it started. How do you think many of the famous accounts like sweetsssj got their SP?
You are right that bots make profit, however for the first time ever, someone who has not kissed the ass of a whale can now get noticed on their posts by using them.
Also, this is not a new concept by any means. Whales were selling their votes long before bots ever started to.
I'm not moving all issues to Steemcleaners. In fact, if you read this, every issue that I say the abuser should be reported to steemcleaners, I also say they should be blacklisted against being able to use bots which is far more effective. If you paid attention you would also know that the reason that steemcleaners has not taken care of all abuse is because this is nearly impossible. They are ran by one person and they constantly ask for help from the community by asking all of us to report abusers to them. Which is only one of the things I've mentioned to do here.
This was never a discussion about the profit of bid bots. Read the title, it was a discussion about bid bot abuse. Which, as I've laid out pretty extensively is coming from abusers that get through and become able to use them. Which is being taken care of at a rapid rate as we speak.
It seems that you have confused the motive of this post with some of your own hatred of bots or perhaps some of your own motives. My motive was to show the platform the bid bot abuse issue which is precisely what I have done.
hello how, I write you because I transferred to the bot upvote sneaky-ninja 0.500SBD and then the bot never gave his vote for the publication but said he had voted for a percentage of 2.02% would like to know why that happened?
Hello @michaeldavid , would it be possible to talk about your bot please? because it does not automatically refund the post ("Dlive") when there is a notice that its refund automatically thanks to your answer;)
I'll look into it. did you send a dlive bid?
That's what you wanted ? ;)
Thanks for letting me know. I just sent your refund.
thanks a lot ;)
Hello, best regards, friend. Look, I really liked this publication and I think it can be very useful for people who are starting, I include myself because in one way or another I paid for robot votes and I recognize that it is not profitable to give something of reputation and something of SP but in most cases you lose money. Very good publication will be that you give me permission to take it to Spanish and I give you the merit for the creation? and I put the link of your original publication, My work will only translate to adapt to Spanish and get your message further. If you authorize me, I'll start working on this right now.
Regards
FS
Sure, you can translate it if you like. Steemcleaners may hit you, I'm not sure how that works.
Also, it doesn't really profit much the first time you use it but if you reinvest the money you get back each time you do see profit long term.
The most valuable thing for bot use is that it gives rep and higher visibility.
Thank you friend, make the translation and add some comments. Attach the link if you want to check greetings.
https://steemit.com/spanish/@freddysanchez/es-recomendable-pagar-por-el-voto-de-una-ballena-o-bots
nice job :)
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STOP@michaeldavid I need to get hold of you regarding @sneaky-ninja asap. I sent a DM on Discord. Thanks!
Ok, where is your blacklist? @yabapmatt needs to have a blacklist filter on steemitbotracker so users aren't stolen from by thieving bot users with secret terms of service. I've used your service a few times and have been pleased with the exposure received thus far. I'm apprehensive to send bids to all bots since being stolen from by the thieving bitch the mark.
The terms are not secret at all. I have posted and made it very clear that if you are on the blacklist and try to bid you will not receive a refund. Stop harassing me about things you clearly do not understand.
YEah it is worse than ever, now the bidbot guys flag people that don't use the bid bots and speak up against them like me and @coininsatan! I mean @coininstant, (me)
i.e @ngc is the worst! did this to my blog every day!