RE: Vote Bots: Great tool or destroying the SteemIt community?
Hey good thoughtful post! I too have experimented in the world of bots (and feared whales won’t upvote in those cases- which I think has some merit based on my experiences And feared the homestead community will judge LOL- not sure if that one has merit). I was doing it a lot for a while, but I backed off recently and feel good about not using bots for a minute. I don’t know why exactly it feels better to not use them, but I think I always had a low level discomfort about it.
Also the thing with randowhale really turned me off. A lot of these bots are just lining the pockets of the already rich. They just take that sbd out and make $ while we get the scraps of their steempower votes!!
I’m still open to using bots, but also there’s a great feeling when everyone upvotes your post high organically. I think a good use of bots could be when you have a really special post you really want to make sure it gets seen.
From your calculations, it is a good ROI?
Using that Steembottracker site makes things easy. As far as I can tell, using at least 6 bots will guarantee some sort of ROI that makes it worth while.
That being said, I only have so many hours n the day and I really do want to engage with the community. Even though I like playing with numbers, I would rather be finding good content and meeting people, as opposed to booping around with the bots!
And I agree, the randowhale things was really lame and makes me pretty angry!