Steemit.com and Steem is all about community and helping each other grow. Our Upvote Bots Are Helping New Steemians Get A Small Boost To Their Posts. This will help them grow and one day they will not need upvote bots but we help.
When you spend hours on a quality post and get a few cents it can be discouraging. This is where @binkley which is bionic comes in handy. I can check for quality and give a small upvote that helps maybe get the social contagion started. Some posts do not get upvoted.
You are right about it should always be actual people but far too often this doesn't happen or the people voting do not have alot of power. One way to overcome this is with a community upvote bot like @steemthat.
https://SteemThat.com is built around upvote bots and other tools that new steemians can use to try and grow. The community helps each other with following and upvoting each others quality posts and calling you out for junk posts and offering to help when we can. Additionally everyone that uses the @steemthat upvote bot benefits by being a member and helping the upvote bot grow. One day @steemthat will be powerful and will only support those that support him back. Bots Are People Too
"Bots Are People Too" :) Thanks for your input. It helps clarify some of my own thoughts.
I was thinking, if it's about being social, and the bot is capable of being social (like Watson) wouldn't THAT be a wonderful social experiment?
I agree that bots who only go through and up-vote peoples posts, regardless of quality are a bad idea. I would think the moderators of the site wouldn't want that at all. If it creates a valid discussion, though, that sounds great to me.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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