RE: WHAT'S YOUR VIEW ON BOTS? Promotion tool or necessary evil? Let me share my personal view.

Thanks for your request to comment here as I'm also working on a way to discover the value of bots and resteemers on Steemit. I've come to find that social media has a lot of consistency. One factor that makes social media interesting is viral properties. Not all posts come with viral potential. However, there are sometimes forms of content that achieve success anywhere. In order to take the relationship of bot & resteemers into view I need to conduct more testing. The goal is most obviously to make as much STEEM as possible on any given post. I've found that it may be more valuable to create your own set of resteem bots and am considering the venture after I've completed my testing of the services found here on Steemit. I spent between 5-7 SBD promoting this post https://steemit.com/daddykid/@sutter/dlizm3jt. You can see the result at current with over 200 upvotes and rewards that total approximately 1.80 to date. The cost was obviously more than the return. But, it may not always be true with various forms of content. Aside from resteem bots and people there are upvote bots and people as well. There is most definitely an indicator that both in tandem may achieve best results for Steemit users. The majority of my tests have come from SBD earned while live broadcasting on DLive. I'm thankful for DLive. Because if it wasn't for DLive... I wouldn't have SBD to test the resteem bots. Minimal upvote bots were used in my testing. When considering the value of the account resteeming or upvoting it's likely that higher value accounts will reward a higher upvote value. However, it's not always true. The cost for an upvote or resteem doesn't provide a guarantee that use of the processes will provide profits to continue the venture. The @minnowbooster is likely the best way to begin when fishing for resteeming that's effectively cheap at 0.01 SBD to date. SBD value or cost may change in the future. All bots and resteemers are subject to change their values. I would like to invest approximately 50 SBD into a few posts to provide test results that can answer this question in a single post. My goal is to create a number of posts and use a number of resteem bots/people providing a singular opportunity on content from Steepshot. Comparable content like a multiple of guitar pictures would be ideal for the test subject. Offering consistency in the content. However, understand that not all people like guitar photos. I may achieve better results with content based on the crypto currency world due to the connectivity of Steemit revolving around the blockchain. Whereas, there's a higher likelihood that those searching for content are seeking references relevant to the blockchain. In essence offering comparable content with a musical instrument. I'm a musician. My marketplace is music consumers. Guitars offer the market may be attracted. The goal is to get into the feed of those that may like guitars. Using resteem bots or people independently with comparable posts would provide a law of averages that one may be able to expect when considering following count, time of resteem (most active hours of the internet to recall were 9AM EST and 9PM EST going back a few years. I suspect it's still similar from a broad based perspective.) and engagement results. The values can most obviously be calculated where as an investment of 0.05 SBD results on the picture of the guitar can offer division between earnings and cost. I find, like other social media, responsive engagements are often active engagements. Meaning, the users have to be active to engage. When users engage it's great to reply when they are active. Reward can be earned on replies, and upvotes can be placed on ones own comments increasing reward value. I've only just begun to access the potential due to DLive valued upvotes increasing my SBD. I believe that brining my music to DLive will increase the most growth for my account personally. Therefore, guitar content. I itemized my result from the resteem bots and people used with the song Thirsty. The idea of similar content would suppose that the 10 lyric videos I created for YouTube are all comparable. The bots used on the song Thirsty have provided an impressive result. The investment of 5-7 SBD returned far less than the total invested. But, the truth to the reward is the value of account placing upvotes on content. There may be cryptowhales that support content creators whom place a positive outlook on the crypto's of their interest. It's always nice to think positively about the coins you hold. There may be those that appreciate live music as well. In order to keep the live streamer going there's nothing like gift SBD in exchange for a song and dance. I believe I have discovered some potentials where indicators can be created when considering upvote bots. However, without enough SBD to test their full ability. Whereas, the upvoters and bot voters have a wallet where value can be estimated. Naturally the percentage value is time based and there's no trackers at the moment providing how much ones reward will return in SBD yet. The upvote bot values can be taken into consideration when addressing the question; "Is it valuable to invest SBD this way?" Because the potential of % based return can provide an equation that will reward posts with upvotes. In the case of the lyric video Thirsty earning upvotes was at a cost. But, any fan may be found when engaging the link which can result in iTunes purchase of the album. The consideration for the content is loaded with potentials to profit rewarding beyond the upvote value. Therefore, the desire to place the music into posts and continue prowess on Steemit may require a reserve pool is earned, a plan is made, and content is created to access the full potential of the plan. The ratios of upvote bots value to upvote % chance rewarding an account are most definitely possible to discover. However it may take sometime before discovering the best of the best. Hypothetically, if one was to address the values of accounts and follow statistical data of whale accounts. How many accounts would have to be investigated before coming to find your first upvote bot? In essence if an upvote bot API or advanced programming index was to be created a category by highest payout chance could be created with known cost of upvote value considered. I believe in resteems. Placing content in-front of the masses. The concept of content is one that considers fireworks in the next hypothetical. While in attendance of the fireworks have you ever looked at the crowd and noticed all are looking upward? It's more likely for the larger body of population to be looking in an upward direction during a firework display. Content is like that too. How often do you check your feed? You're following users. But, do you check your feed and engage? Where do you likely engage from? On steemit tabs exist Feed, New, Hot, Promoted, Trending. Whereas, the content filter can provide variation from every feed available. In essence all streaming content acting as a feed. Now, where are the people looking at the time? In consideration to efforts to oust corruption in political favor of one candidate or another imagine the lone content generator commanding the audience while watching the live stream rally. When you find a popular live stream you'll notice comments flying due to the fact that others may take interest in the page that commented. It's not always the case. Not every comment in a high volume live stream is in hopes to gain followers for the account itself. The idea of viral posts and high value content earned by way of accessing the potential of resteemers and upvoters is one that may come with a shelf. Whereas, the investment of 4 SBD in the right place may return a higher percentage value. But, investments below 7 SBD will likely impose majority cost. Which, the return consideration of the MinnowBooster may result in cheapness effectivity as the best way to build a reserve. Explore the possibility where the post Thirst would find additional SBD available and invest in upwards of 30 to 50 SBD on the post. The likelihood of larger whale accounts finding the content may be a direct effect that takes the shelf and rockets the account into a profit. However, the speculation should offer that nearly any post can invest into upvotes and resteems that provide extended reach. The promote button exists on each post. It would be nice to have a connectivity to the transaction where investing 0.001 SBD comes with a 1 engagement placement. However, there's no way to accommodate all posts in that fashion and due to lack of information resulting in transfer to @null account there's zero math to understand the value of the expense. In essence, when I hit the promote button and invest SBD there is a sense of a good karma investment otherwise a coin into the fountain wishing the corporation great luck. Knowing that the Steemit corporation is the sole benefactor and coins into the promote button haven't entirely vanished into the @null abyss. A similar style test can be done with the guitar example to indicate the potential for specific content of interest. Each type of content will perform differently in all suspect where viewers engaging in feeds have different reason. The song Thirsty. How many commented for the placement? Whereas, if @crypto.piotr, myself, and a few others were to upvote this comment it would result in a number one placement beneath the post. Which, is a nice way to think about selecting comments to vote on. Users may have commented on Thirsty sheerly for the fact that it was in the tabs where feeds are surfacing new content. There may have been a whale out there looking at it. But, the line never set the hook because the content styling didn't attract the particular whale enough to be rewarded with an upvote. If the extension of this consideration was to be fully tested to create a website where categorized bots are addressed over calculators a lot of questioning would be out of the way. However, what's the fun in the finished product at this point? It's likely that some form of developer team will realize the value of attracting larger upvote bots with ratios rewarding payouts making the investment valuable. But, the accounts upvoting may change their cost at any time. The calculators would require manual entry due to offerings listed by cost of SBD. It would be a madness that would take manual checks and balances to address cost to value potential ration. If one was to create such a calculator that spat out top upvote bots and earnings potential. The bots may get news of it and up their price for an upvote. In the earliest of running here on Steemit it's fun to address these questions and I'm hopeful to earn more SBD to have more to offer this style conversation. Consider this post as an investment of time that could have been made anywhere. When collecting my SBD I found reference to the link and it was a topic of my interest. Therefore, the post has earned engagement. You can lead a horse to the camera. But, there's no telling what equestrian content is worth unless someone provides the path for previous reference when gauging similar attempts. Best of luck with your ventures! Following and upvoting this post!