RE: If You Use Upvote Services Please Read These Two Posts
"yeah but you have to ask yourself - six months ago when you were using bots and only on the platform for a month or so - how much reputation did you gain by doing that? how many new followers did you gain by people seeing your posts?"
Other than some reputation and some small monetary profits I think I didn't gain any (real) followers or any extra exposure. It wasn't like I had enough sbd to get my self anywhere near the top of trending, and the bot vote usually comes too late to get you in the top of the hot feed.
99% of my earned sp and rep points come from engaging with other people and communities. If I was to start all over from zero with what I now know, I wouldn't even spend a cent to buy a bot-vote.
Bots aren't a necessity, it's a parasite that profits only the early members and unless they take everything out and cash out in the near future, they will also end up getting fucked by them.
I guess we see things from a different angle, and we can keep using different words to make the same arguments :P
I guess it's one of those things that we can respectfully disagree on.
Obviously you've been around longer so you probably no the platform better than I in many respects, but I'd like to see examples of somebody that has built a decent account and profile without using any bots, investing significant capital, or recieved a large boost from one or two whales .
On a side note - bid bots are shit anyway - most of the time the bidders are running at a loss once curation is taken out.
@acidyo and he gives and gives and gives back to new users but once you start buying votes you exclude yourself from his curation team @ocd, you exclude yourself from a @curie vote and a lot of other groups that 100% spend their day looking for low value quality post by new users.