The benefit is that you can promote your post and get more views. This helps you earn more followers. You can greatly increase the speed of your growth on the platform.
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The benefit is that you can promote your post and get more views. This helps you earn more followers. You can greatly increase the speed of your growth on the platform.
I agree. The barrier to initial views is really high. Having bots to effectively promote content with relatively low financial risk is almost necessary at this point. It's a good trade off for the bots, who end up building up a big amount of steem power, and its good for the people who donate. I would be extremely reluctant to spend 1.00 SBD to promote a post because I'd be unsure if it'd even register on the promoted page or be upvoted. With bots at least I know a few people will see it and I'll make some of my money back.
But there is already a promote button that does the same thing while returning value to Steem instead of keeping it for yourself and the bid bot.
But it still defeats the purpose of real human interaction. People may get more followers but by gaming the system.
What about writers who are good with writing but not with networking? In that scenario it opens a window to success. I believe this platform has two dimensions, one is content other networking but few people might be good at both.