Buying votes doesn't pay.
Check my one and only biggest upvote :
I sent 40 SBD to upvote.
I received something like 85 SBD worth upvote.
%25 is on curation, left is approximately 64 SBD.
Divide by %50
SBD receival : 32 SBD
Steem receival : 32/3,6 -->approximately 8,6 SP
This is almost break-even even a bit loss.
Each user that uses bots gives %25 curation and powers up automatically.
So part of their SBD is turned to SP.
I am not defending bots neither against them.
I made analysis on them for some time.
I see them as an ads system.
I guess people using bots see this also.
Can we think of an other method of curation or promotion?
I guess we can...This is something people are working on.
When a more efficient system is implemented, bot business will finish by itself.
FD.
Delegate power to @ocd, if you want new users to be rewarded and don't care about filling your own pocket
I agree delegation is a good way of supporting.
I did :
Had to take it back for The Resistance.
Did you?
FD.
Your delegations are both to projects......how do I put this.....minnowbooster sells votes and utopian-io has Stinc delegation and takes a % of users rewards on top of it for a chance of a vote out of that delegation. Both crap IMHO.
Well, i think utopian is doing a great job. Thanks to it I have got into steem.js and learned basics. Still amateur though, I am a Commodore64 guy after all :)
We disagree on many things friend.
No problem at all, this is also a learning process for me.
I have to hear as many different thoughts as possible to expand my view.
At the end of the day, there is one truth I learned starting from primary school and this is my torchlight in all this mist...If a powerful guy is using his power to dictate terms over less powerful and innocent ones this is called bullying.
I do whatever it takes to stop it.
FD.
In that case why can't you see the big picture that the vote selling bots are the bullies causing users to buy votes to compete? You're just fighting the wrong battles and supporting the wrong ideas.
Why not try picking a random minnow you don't know and delegating to them, the type of gift where there is no reward for you other than giving to someone to make that one person's experience better?
I see your resistance group as people trying to gain recognition to help benefit themselves by being able to post and brag about how you stood up to big bad @grumpycat who isn't even anything but a dolphin having fun with his money.
There are much much larger problems in steemit other than users getting flagged on votes they purchased and did not earn
I am spamming your post...are you in steemit-chat? I am there as me @firedream.
lol, spam is good. I am the same name on steemit chat and discord