CAN hurt as long as you ONLY use Traffic Exchanges; that's why I use Affiliate Funnel to handle that.
https://www.trker.com/rotate/28422/4/steemit
The clever part in there is:
*You get rebranding
*You can use your HitsConnect Rotator AND
*You can implement the #TrafficWave Autoresponder in case you have an Upgrade...
All the details in here in my 'Todays #eBook':
https://www.trker.com/go/113999/steemit
Besides all that they have their own Top 60 List of Traffic Exchanges here: https://www.trker.com/go/113885/steemit but I CANNOT understand why #ILH and #StartXchange despite the fact both do not deliver...
Yours
Matthias B. Klein