glad someone wrote an article about this - it annoys me when the bot I have bid on has a high ROI and then people all bid at the end and the ROI goes negative. I dont understand why they dont just choose another one - impatience?
By doing this they are making everyone worse off - apart from the bots who already make massive profits!
Some people put bids in right after they post but I generally wait at least half an hour to see if my posts can be boosted to the 'hot' page organically (usually they cant lol)
Great work
I feel the same way about the bid bots ROI turning negative. When I see that happens, I feel like sending a message to the person that caused that to happen to be more considerate next time. If only I know programming, I would program a bot that would send that reminder to the particular person who caused the ROI to become negative. I hope someone would do that.
And I faced the same thing too - about the post being able to get to the hot page - I noticed that without boosting using bidbots, even the best post will get lost in a sea of posts. Steemit is not a level playing field. Then again, the real world is not too - so it's nothing new.
Thanks for the heads up. Please spare a vote if you can. I upvote your reply & follow you too.
Haha I feel the same way mate!
Im not abig bot user just usually a few dollars here and there to promote certain posts... where there money and greed people will take advantage unfortunalty