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RE: Steem Analytics: Earning more than 100% of vote value through curation and effect of 50/50 on this practice.
Excellent analysis. I find myself wondering how readily one could bidbot their posts sky high for a week, attracting attention from curation bots, then get rid of the bidbots and continue to enjoy the curation bot votes, based solely on past performance.
One might have a dozen curation bots each upvoting their posts because the others will; deliberately engineering a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thanks Matt!
It would be interesting to see (a) how much in curation bot votes you would get added for say, $100 of bidbot votes, and (b) how long they would continue to upvote.
My guess is (a) only a marginal amount, probably a few dollars, since they have to make x16 or maybe even x64 for high curation returns and (b) only a fairly short period - there must be some regular updating to make sure they're hitting the desired returns.
Getting on voting lists from accounts that vote automatically on a regular set of authors might be a bigger win. Some of those seem to continue forever. Maybe that's something I'll investigate at some point!
This possibility selects for smarter bots. In the scenario you describe at least some of the bots will get a poor return, and possibly all of them.