I have experimented with the upvote bots, but the returns are almost break even and I quit right away. If you don't do it right it could be negative. It adds complication to posting. The really bad thing it does is creates competition to outdo the next guy. To buy votes so your article gets voted a little higher than other person. The price to upvote now has snowballed and people are heavily abusing it. Then the minnows can never compete with the huge upfront costs. The ones that can cover the upfront costs feel like they are forced to use them just to compete. No matter how anyone tries to implement up vote services, the system snowballs. And here is the real problem. The only people that really benefit are the bot owners. It makes them rich while destroying what we have. Many of the witnesses are responsible. It is often how they get into the top 20 witness position. It is disgusting.
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100% . I have been here for 6 months so I never got to see what organic growth of an account looks like really. Well I guess I have and for the most part unless you are an AWESOME writer organic growth is unfortunatly pretty slow for most of us average folks.
@pawsdog is pretty organic growth, I fear the worst for what may have happened to him.
Well, that sucks. I have never seen him around but from reviewing his account he quit like 5 months ago. I think I would have liked him to from his haejin call out posts. My kinda steemian.
My understanding from from his introduction post is that he was battling cancer. I'm worried that he may have lost that battle.
Besides his Haejin analysis, he was also doing a daily ulog on his run for a million dollars through just regular votes. No bots. I think he was making some decent headway for someone that had only been around for a few months.
Oh, I did not know that part of it. He left a decent chunk of money in his account so you might be right. That is just tragic if true.