Do you think that bid bots are good for Steemit? It kind of undermines the purpose of the promotion feature on the site. There is also a lot of examples of people abusing bid bots to make way more on a post than the rest of the community thinks they should. What are the benefits?
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Yeah not a fan personally. I used them to great profit at the start but just felt so dirty doing it.
I just felt it really was going against the nature of the community. I no longer use them. I don't mind other people using it's just not for me.
Yeah, I'm still split on it. If it's possible, you can't keep people from doing it and if you aren't using them you are behind compared to those that are, but then if everyone uses them the bots will take a chunk of the reward pool and we are all worse off.
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.