Ideally, if you want to use paid votes you would decline rewards, or set the post beneficiary to @null or @steem.dao - 100% of the post reward should go to that. This is because, if you set a beneficiary, and use paid votes, you still get the curation rewards from the paid votes. So the only real way to counter paid votes is to trade the author rewards for exposure.
How to set beneficiaries: https://steemit.com/beneficiaries/@steemitblog/new-beneficiary-features-on-steemit-com
Why not just get rid of all bid bots if they was not available they would not get used
Can you please answer the question how much can we promote our post to with out getting downvoted ?
Try using the interface on Steempeak.com to post: on the compose screen there is a drop down for beneficiary. It's OK to promote a post, but not to be seen to be earning a positive return. This was how things were with big accounts posting crap, bid botting themselves up and self voting and just milking the system. That's what @theycallmedan is fighting.
Adding @null sends any profits from that post to be burned (increasing the value of all Steem out there, @steem.dao sends Steem to the proposal system. If you'd still make some curation rewards, but you wouldn't be profiting so obviously from the bid-bot, you will still get into the trending lists and get seen and your content is probably good enough to then get organic likes.
Thank you for reviewing and changing downvote to upvote we are not here to milk the system in no shape or form we understand what Dan is trying to do but we don't think it will work to many big players fighting against it and all that will do is turn people away and make investers leave in turn it will end up being #oldsteem again with only oldsteem user's no #newsteem users most users don't like the trending page any more loads of big players have stopped posting all together our goal is to bring new people and investors in to make #newsteem #beststeem
You could start answering yourself too.
If you want to find out more just have a look around you will find out what you need to know
Thanks for not giving any info. I must be the only idiot on Steemit that takes the time to explsin things to people.
Kind of sad you promote but cannot give information if people show interest.
I wish you a happy Thursday. 💕
By holding this token you will be upvoted once a day the more you hold the bigger the upvote as you missed the BPC token drop we have gave you a upvote