I'm a manual curator and I don't upvote anything that has bots on it. I upvote in the first 25 minutes to 2 days and promote what I upvote on steemit and on my other social media.
I use @minnowbooster on my 6 day old posts if they have a low payout for these reasons:
- to give a bigger reward to the people who upvoted me so maybe they will come back. I also upvote good comments on my posts for that reason.
- to give me a bigger payout so I don't feel discouraged.
- to recycle some of my sbd into sp easily. Growing sp is my current steemit goal.
I do this on day 6 because it does not sit there looking spammy/scammy in those first 5 days. I know of many manual curators who do not vote on bot posts. This is because we do not find as high quality of posts on bot-driven posts and because we do not make as much rewards by voting on them.
We do much better finding something 35 minutes old with $1 on it and pushing it to $20-$40 with real voters. I'm not sure why that happens but it's true. The posts with 150 tiny votes do not payout as well.
bots - not recommended by me - a new and not that successful steemer so take that as you will :)
You make some good points, and I agree the comments do get a bit untidy with the bots. Upvoting valid non-bot comments gets the humans up top though, which I try to do if my voting power allows it.
I'm still experimenting with the bots to see how an early or late bot vote affects other votes. Like you say, and early bot vote may result in some people moving on without voting, regardless of the quality of the post, which is a pity. I find I get the best results by beating the bots to a post, but not voting too early.Some won't mind giving an upvote regardless of there being a bot vote already. We're all trying to find what best suits us, and that's great :)
hi @fitinfun can you please help me spread the message. we are arranging free blockchain development classes (and ofcourse you are invited too), please upvote / resteem this? thank you
https://steemit.com/adnan/@a381/free-blockchain-development-classes-through-google-classroom