The list below represents the 25 largest net transfers to bid-bots for the promotion of articles posted on Steemit yesterday.
Due to formatting restrictions, only a few columns can be displayed.
Note: Due to the complexity of certain promotional tools and their associated refunding mechanisms, some smaller refunds may be duplicated or missed.
What is this report?
Many authors choose to promote their posts via Bid-Bots. In return for direct payment, the bots will upvote your article. This service is fully "legal" on Steemit and used by minnows and whales alike.
There are many reasons why an author may want to purchase votes.
- Give the impression that the article is of substantial value and perhaps you should think so too.
- Cause the article to make it to the "Hot" or "Trending" category where it gets more exposure and more votes.
- Cause the payout to increase so that anyone that votes on the post will share in a higher curation pool.
- Attempt to make a direct profit on the vote by receiving a vote that nets more than the cost of the bid.
- Increase the authors reputation by receiving large SP votes. High SP votes move the reputation quickly.
- Support another author or entity indirectly through a Bid-bot.
The list is sorted with the highest NET amounts paid to the Bid-bots on top in descending order.
- From = The user who sent the payment to the bot.
- Gross Bids (SBD) = The total of all bids sent to the bots in SBD or Steem for this single post.
- After Refunds (SBD) = The net total of all bids sent less refunds received back in SBD or Steem for this single post.
- Article Payout = The total STU (SBD/SP) payout value of for the entire article (not just from bots). This is the total paid to the author and curators. (This is the $ value which shows on the bottom of every post.)
- Link is the direct link to the article that has been promoted via the bid bot.
Largest Net Bids sent to Bidbots and and other post promoters
| Date | From | Gross Bids | After Refunds | Article Payout | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-21 | @joeparys | $629.00 | $554.00 | $1,105.08 | Link |
| 4-21 | @madpuppy | $324.00 | $324.00 | $267.25 | Link |
| 4-21 | @chbartist | $377.50 | $277.50 | $557.34 | Link |
| 4-21 | @lifemovedbysteem | $245.87 | $245.87 | $491.08 | Link |
| 4-21 | @wideyedwonderer | $221.00 | $221.00 | $474.78 | Link |
| 4-21 | @tendershepard | $215.00 | $215.00 | $463.33 | Link |
| 4-21 | @cicbar | $207.20 | $207.20 | $430.00 | Link |
| 4-21 | @leftbank | $174.79 | $174.21 | $377.88 | Link |
| 4-21 | @lazariko12 | $285.50 | $134.62 | $308.82 | Link |
| 4-21 | @majibullah | $130.97 | $130.97 | $276.61 | Link |
| 4-21 | @markdeheide | $254.00 | $125.29 | $260.93 | Link |
| 4-21 | @muratkbesiroglu | $248.00 | $121.00 | $269.86 | Link |
| 4-21 | @brittuf | $120.00 | $120.00 | $251.21 | Link |
| 4-21 | @chronocrypto | $195.88 | $119.64 | $257.98 | Link |
| 4-21 | @chronocrypto | $184.93 | $111.21 | $230.72 | Link |
| 4-21 | @realseb | $106.00 | $106.00 | $240.62 | Link |
| 4-21 | @rishan | $100.00 | $100.00 | $221.69 | Link |
| 4-21 | @lgfurmanczyk | $85.00 | $84.13 | $168.84 | Link |
| 4-21 | @beastlybanter | $90.00 | $80.68 | $158.79 | Link |
| 4-21 | @jannat | $76.00 | $74.66 | $177.43 | Link |
| 4-21 | @lifenbeauty | $94.22 | $74.14 | $146.43 | Link |
| 4-21 | @zannat | $71.00 | $71.00 | $152.35 | Link |
| 4-21 | @charles1 | $80.00 | $70.60 | $146.83 | Link |
| 4-21 | @martinphoto | $74.10 | $67.75 | $130.22 | Link |
| 4-21 | @cryptoitaly | $68.00 | $67.56 | $123.13 | Link |
Sometimes great articles get to the top because they are great articles.
Sometimes other articles get to the top because there was sufficient money to pay for that placement. It is up to the community to judge if the rewards pool is being properly managed and distributed in a fair and honest manner.
The wonderful thing about Steemit and the Steem blockchain is everything is transparent
allowing you and all those who care about this platform to be educated on how to properly use the platform as well as how to protect it.
As a result of digging even deeper on the longer term problems associated with bidbots, I have launched a new tool called @transparencybot, which seeks to bring more transparency and education on the use of bidbots to everyone.
You can read more about this mission here.
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This is highly inaccurate and manipulated data. Please take into consideration weekly or even monthly data and you will be supprised. Those top names will get some bad reputation now but i.e. @chbartist is a good example of sharing with community. He upvote his posts after 30min that community gets full 25% of curation and he mostly upvotes comments under posts. I know lots of people earning couple of times a day $100 - $200 in 10 minutes with 10 views of posts. Those are names you should point out.
Nice post
@bycoleman has purchased delegated SP from Minnowbooster and upvoted his other accounts introbot 47% of the time, transparency bot 19% of the time and himself 15% of the time.
Producing a 2nd or 3rd account and upvoting that account can be seen as taking advantage of the rewards pool. One person with multiple accounts may be looked into and addressed if/when illicit activity is noticed.
Some interesting points to note here, I actually had not thought about it before but it kind of obvious that curation rewards increase when you upvote high reward posts. That explains why my curation is so low, I tend to only upvote low reward posts to help them grow more.
#thealliance
Yes, most of the curation goes to the bidbots since their bids are SO much larger than anyone else's, even if they are not the first couple of voters after the 30 minute window.
Why is there such a variance in the "after refunds" column? Sometimes it is as if the person got back less SBD than they spent and other times as if they got back every penny they spent exactly. Are you rounding to zero whenever they got back at least as much as they spent on SBD?
Hi, good to hear from you again.
Many times a bid send to the bots are refunded by the bot due to many factors:
So Refunds are not what the bot payouts out, but basically bids that were not accepted.
Thanks for the clarification and for all the research you do. I've been reading you but not having time to comment, as I'm in the midst of a home sale and inter-state move.
You are very welcome. thank you!
An interstate move is one job I know I am very glad not to be doing :)
Blessings!
@bycoleman you were flagged by a worthless gang of trolls, so, I gave you an upvote to counteract it! Enjoy!!