100% Upvotes for all

When I first joined Steemit like most people I wanted to start earning fast! So I joined such groups as @minnowsupport and also paid for @randowhale's service both of which helped boost my earnings as well as increased my followers by getting my material under fellow members eyes. With that in mind, back in November, I joined @shadowbot which is a bot that automates such things as upvoting the best content and automagically following back users that follow you. Now there are two schools of thought on these Upvoting bots. A lot of people think they're evil and people only use them to upvote their own stuff. The flip side of that is sometimes you don't have enough time to check out every post your mate does especially if, as some are doing, they churn out 10 or more posts per day. The only downside is bots are actually as dumb as my left big toe; they will continue to upvote the Steemian you have told it to vote for even if they have suddenly started churning out utter garbage. Like most technologies, it all depends on how it's used.

Now I know very little about Steemit and even less about blockchain cryptocurrency voodoo. So with that in mind, I've started watching the likes of @jerrybanfield on Youtube. To go off on a tangent for a minute, Jerry can be a bit dry and his stuff can become out of date very quickly however that's not his fault to be fair, the technology moves forward very fast and also some people start out really well offering great services and for some reason fall by the wayside. Back to the subject: So I watched one of jerry's video's titled Earn Steem for finding an undervalued Steemit Post and submitting to Curie! (What a mouthful) and he talked about Steemian, don't bother with @currie you can't submit posts anymore apparently. Streemian, effectively, is another bot. Now I really like Streemian to be honest, I've added a select band of reprobates to my Fanbase and originally set my Upvote to 100%

Yesterday my mate @steevc said "You're doing a lot of voting?" And he was right, more to the point the bots were doing a lot of voting. I had a quick look and saw my voting power was down to 60.8% and my efficiency was a rubbish 30% sadly I have decided to pull back a bit and drop my voting levels. On average most will receive around 30% Upvote with a select few still benefiting from 100% upvote. in a few weeks time, I hope to be back to upvoting everyone 100% once my account is in better shape.