A self upvote is like having self-esteem, you are proud of your own work and accomplishments. People respond positively to those who have confidence and self-esteem.
A bot upvote is a cold, lifeless, emotionless digital entity doing what it was programmed to do.
There is no esteem in a machine. There is no sense of pride and honor in a machine. There is no way for a machine to recognize and truly appreciate the effort or lack of effort an individual puts in to a post.
So, pride for a post enough to spend value worth pennies (self-vote), but not pride enough to spend value worth an SBD or two (bot-vote)?
The bots are cold-emotionless machines that lack judgement but they only act on instruction from us.
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This conversation reminds me of a scene from The Big Bang Theory.
"Leonard: Of course she did. Anyway, that’s not what I was gonna say. When I was ten years old, I built a hugging machine.
Penny: A hugging machine?
Leonard: Yeah. I got a dressmaker’s mannequin, I stuffed it with an electric blanket so it would be warm, and built two radio-controlled arms that would hug me and pat my back.
Penny: Oh, that is so sad.
Leonard: You know what the saddest part was?
Penny: What?
Leonard: My father used to borrow it."
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I think, for the purposes of this conversation, we're operating on two different idea of value. That's the only way see any logic in what you're saying. Oh well. Steem on.
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Please please do not misunderstand me. I am by no means passing judgment on anyone who uses an up voting bot. I have friends on here that I know in real life before steemit who use up voting Bots. I've got no issue with that. It's just for myself I cannot use them. I would feel like I did not actually earn the upvotes that I received. To me it would feel like I'm having to pay somebody to be my friend or in the instance of the BBT show building a robot to give me a hug.
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Can I get 1 or 2 SBD from giving a bot a penny of SP?
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I don't see how that's relevant.
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Sorry I was at work, didn't see your replies til now.
Here is what I was trying to say, as a minnow, if I upvote myself, I get a penny. It cost me nothing from my wallet because it comes from the pool allotted to me each day. So basically it's a free penny. Now if I decided to pay a bot to upvote my posts that is going to cost me 1 SBD from my wallet and i have no idea how much it will net me in an upvote. Here is my question though. Without REAL people upvoting my post, how would I have 1 SBD to give the bot? I mean I could post 10x a day for 10 days and upvote myself to get that 1 SBD.
I guess I put more value on the interactions with real people than I do with the $ amount a post earns. We all know how this platform works. If people like you and/or the content you put out, they will upvote you.
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