Man, hats off to you, you're one of the good ones on steemit. These vote bots and abusers are annoying as hell, I honestly feel like I need to spend 5SBD for anyone to take notice of an article. Like when I do pay vote bots, more people come, I don't know how to compete otherwise. Something's gotta give...
but this post should not be 400$.
I love how the top comment is a self vote for $4.40
I'm right there with you, doing the same thing. If I see a heavily voted post I don't upvote, I might comment, but looks like the post already is doing great team!
I gave my two cents on how to act on steemit here last night. Using a vote bot didn't really help it find success anyways, I'm ready for something else to come out that would make vote bots obsolete, been trying to brainstorm, but the architecture of the site makes changing it difficult