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I use bots on all of my comments and posts.
https://steemit.com/@mysearchisover/comments
It's not my fault there is a bounty on this post.

welp OK.

But still this is ruining the point of an bounty

You're not going to remove your flag?

No it doesn't. The author can decide 100% of the reward. 80% with an upvote and the post author can also take away the other 20% as well.

Perhaps in the spirit of good sportsmanship you could refrain from doing it on these contests.

Are you on a blacklist where you can't win bounties?

I was. I'm probably back on it again. I guess I screwed up asking to be off of it. Regardless whether I am back on it or not I'll still probably have to try and avoid every single Steem Bounty post like the plague.

I know you use bots on all your comments as you visit my blog frequently ( as I do yours ) but when done in a bounty topic, to some it may look like you are trying to get the majority of the community bounty to yourself via self upvoting and that is where the controversy is coming from. For the record ... I do not think that is your intention.

Yeah live and learn. I will do my best to stay far far away from the bounty posts from now on. I didn't realize how valuable a small share of .25 SBD is to some people. Now I know! lol
Thanks for the acknowledgement.
I didn't think it would be a huge deal since the rewards was only .25 SBD but obviously I was VERY wrong. I lost way more in bot vote than I would have gotten on the reward and plus I might have even lost a rep point or two. I think I might be at 60 rep or higher if it wasn't for the bounty program.

FYI when you do your upvoting you might want to consider upvoting people that actually upvoted your post that they are trying to win a bounty on but it's your bounty so you can do whatever you want.