Always great input Mr. fullcoverbetting. I will definately start tracking my reputation. Thanks for pointing that out.
About your personal, moral, delema with bid bots. Let me start by saying I am personally not that comfortable with it myself. But maybe if we analyse and discuss this topic more in depth, the community may start to become more comfortable and accepting.
I think bid buying is not a symptom of a problem with Steem but a problem with freemarket system itself. If there was no incentive to buy or sell votes no one would do it; but there is and it is not likely to go away so I figured the best thing, for me personally, was to get properly informed about the topic by putting my toes in the water.
The mudslinging about bid bots and bid selling (that goes on) is unfounded (IMO) and I will try to rebut the common points that I see spring up in the reply's on my post here. I see one comment from @gamernoob I will respond to when I get a little more time.
Thanks again for the great input.
I have 8 SBI shares FYI. I gave 2 SBI x 4 people
I do believe I have something about 24 SBI shares. Did sponsor 20 of those and got 4 ones sponsored!
It is true that the bidbods would ran out of business if there were no customers. But this will be an utopia! You could use the promote feature to give your post some attention, but this steem is burned. And why would you use it, if there is a possibility to invest to get attention and probably get 90% of the investment back!
But I do appreciate that you are openly writing about it, and try to calculate if you can make a profit with it or not! I also don't judge you for using them, I did use then once in a while!
It is always nice to have a respectful discussion, this is what the steem blockchain needs. More interaction between the users, only this could make the steem blockchain a real game changer!