Hey, reader of this post, come to the "dark side" and join my curation trail!

While the post claims that it is cheating I have a different opinion. I treat steemit as a game and I do not think that people following upvotes of other people violate any rules.

Same goes for strategy 1 which is rather a better example of cheating where you basically steal curation rewards from the upvote bots. That strategy does not even try to distinguish good posts from bad. But again - there is no violation of any rules, so any strategy goes as long as blockchain accepts your moves.