This question often comes to my mind whether using bots is okay or not.
This article is made especially focusing on bots just to take the suggestion of other steemians and there is no intention of hurting anyone.
Have I ever used bots?
Yes, I have used bots and I accept that. But sometimes it looks like the self-voting to me which is a kind of spamming.
Are bots good or bad?
You pay bots to vote on your own post. It is a win-win situation for both(Bot owner and the content creator). Then you'll think why am confused about it? The reason is that because the bots are giving upvote so a lot of people doesn't create quality content. And they don't add to the community. They are just focusing on the profit they gets from bots.
But on the other hand, everything has a positive side because bots also help those creators who put a lot of effort into their post but can't get the reward of their so much effort. In that case, they either get frustrated or leave the steemit.
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I want everyone of you to give me your suggestion about it. The main idea behind this post is to know that what are the other methods except for bots which put your post into trending and will reward you of your efforts that you are putting. Because for a person like me who is not a good author, it is difficult to write even one paragraph creatively. So we have to put a lot of effort in even a small article.
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I think steem-bounty is also a way of getting noticed by other. I'll also suggest to interact as much as you can with your audience. Also if time is the problem then reduce the number of posts you do and try to put more effort in one post then observe what is the result.
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We already have https://steemit.com/promoted I'd say fix the promoted feature by offering more visibility. Make the feature work just like bots. But make the vote return a much bigger return and burn both the funds sent for promotion and the extra $ gained through the promotion feature.
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Have you ever used promotion for your post???
It was benificial or not?
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I've tried practically every single kind of bot. Whether you benefit or not depends on what you are aiming for. Bid bots are basically like advertisements. You are very likely to loose money but if you spend enough, you'll get massive exposure. @smartmarket and @minnowbooster are more safer options with guaranteed profit under stable STEEM prices although their availability of votes is all over the place.
Resteem bots are hit or miss. sometimes they create some great exposure. Sometimes they do practically nothing. Bots like @tipu have their own kind of flavor. Basically it's all subjective. For pure exposure at the cost of money, you can't go wrong with bots. If you want to profit, then don't rely too much on bots. You might actually end up loosing money.
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First of all I have to say to get your posts into trending via a bidbot will cost you at least 50-100 STEEM (depending on the tag). All in all I have to say using bots is ok in my opinion (used them quite a lot a few weeks back but stoped since I saw they are providing mainly negative ROI and as I said it is very expensive to push your posts on the trending page and I do not have the funds to do that).
Yeah on the other hand it is quite simple (theoretically at least) to get your posts to trending and that is to write exceptional content but yeah that is really hard to do if you do not have a talent for it.
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There are some great bots out there on steemit with all sorts of functions. I often use bid bots as tipping bots for when I want to vote on something but my vote is too low.
The problem isn't really the bot but our mindsets of being selfish and wanting to benefit us first over others. We want to create programs that are helpful but someone is always going to abuse them and instead of having to rework the program we should be looking at changing peoples mindsets but that is too idealistic I suppose
Bots are here to stay and honestly I don't mind them that much, they bring additional transactions and trade volumes to steemit so in essence it is helping the economy grow as a whole even if some people are just voitng themselves up
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Actually, I'm saying because of some people they don't even create quality content but still get rewards because of bots.
Also read the suggestion portion of the post because bounty is made on that.
And if your idea will be helpful then you can get extra reward except the bounty
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I think this argument of what quality content is should be thrown out the window. No piece of content is truely more imporant than another and its purely objective. If for example there are more car enthusiasts on steemit with stake they will upvote car content over others so you'll see disparity there and someone who writes an amazing post about vaping could get no support because there is no community members with stake interested in that content
The trending page is garbage, we all know this and I think most people with any idea of steemit have moved on from it and just gone about their business forming communities around them and thats where I see the value of steemit lies. Once we build larger interest communities around certain topics with stake these communties will push the best content to the top instead of people with the ablity to invest in bots. I think worrying about what people do with bots is a short term afflication and long term we working towards a more regulated meritocracy
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If someone post "Hi, I'm John Cena" and use bots on that, he'll earn from it.
On the other hand if I put content to interact with others and to know other people mindset and want to help other in any aspect but can't get reward of my efforts then it's unfair I think.
Can you suggest some of the methods other than bots to earn greater revenue?
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Other than self voting/circle jerking?
No
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Bid bots distort the distribution of rewards and reduces the amount of RC available for users. They increase the wealth inequality and makes Steem Power delegation more expensive. I think they have more disadvantages than advantages, so I encourage every body not to use them.
The only vote bot I use is @schoolofminnows, that upvotes other members and only when voting power is at 100%.
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Honestly, besides winning contests, getting upvotes from curation projecs and making friends with those who have large SP, I don't know any other way.
I might know of one though: Steem Vote exchange. I haven't tried it but it seems good
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In general voting bots are abused to easily and are not good but recently they have been more strict with the content they allow which is an improvement. It also provided whales with an income not from self voting helping the platform. Other bots not for profit/promotion tend to be positive bots like steam bounty. But then there is the selfvoting bots and harassment downvote bots. There here to stay, like it or not, I think they are in general good.
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I think the real votes and comments should be more valuable than bots. At least a little. While you should get a promotion system, it is also true that the real engagement is what creates value to this network.
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