I have wondered this, but we can at least make it even less profitable. It's the vote sellers who always win from the deal. Does promoting a post like this work? Unless you get onto trending it doesn't seem to gain you comments.
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I saw one of them mention that one of his boosted posts only had about $2 worth of real votes. So it's not really. All these people are doing is making themselves look silly, annoying people and hurting their own long term profit and everyone else's - all for a few dollars more.
I really think that greed is the biggest danger for Steem. It would be such a shame if that kills it
well the question is actually do u get any upvotes.
It feels like organica upvotes have kinda disapeared from steem altogether.
I get plenty, as well as some automated ones I didn't pay for. I don't deal in absolutes. Steem is neither totally great nor totally crap. I would think the purpose of promoting a post is to get responses. You can earn rewards if you gain supportive followers. Vote buying is spoiling Steem. The trending page is junk and people are getting high reps they didn't earn. I think it's worth taking some action to deal with this, although I can do little about the worst offenders.