I'd like to see it from all angles, @randowhale. I know you are not a whale of many words, so I tried to put some words into your baleen.
Is your service good or bad for the Steem community? Would you care to comment? Can I interview you on the record for your views on the topic?
Are you, single-flipperly, responsible for the low-quality posts on Steem and the seedy, unintelligible garbage that rises to the surface?
Are you planning the destruction of Steem Platform, one ill-gotten SBD at a time, until you have all of the money and there's just a cesspool left behind in your wake?
Are you a kind, gentle, cuddly, massive creature of friendliness, misunderstood and shunned because of some misunderstandings, shunned just because you don't like to talk with plankton and krill in your mouth?
Just wondering... Maybe I am defending the indefensible.
I don't think @randowhale needs defending at this point. There are 99 happy users for every 1 who has a complaint. If you want to bump your post, pay for a vote, chances are if you use it correctly you'll receive more reward than you put in. There's really nothing else to it, it's exactly what it seems.
My post was pretty clear. I like the option of @randowhale because it is a strategic decision. Your detractors like @bluerthangreen are saying that poor content is getting upvoted, which is detrimental to Steem.
I would ask for proof that this is happening.
Because when I strategically use @randowhale, I have already had a number of upvotes through some other means, and the post is already of some value.
A single upvote from @randowhale is not going to pump up a post too much or give it enough gravity to make worthless posts valuable.
I may be preaching to the choir here, but the proper use of @randowhale is to add him to a chorus of voices that are already singing the same tune. He drowns out most voices, but he is not a solo artist.
My friend @bluerthangreen is of the opposite side. I am pretty sure you can tell I was joking about "planning the destruction of Steem Platform," which was clearly the innuendo when he wrote about "the undoing of the whole Steemit system" at the head of this thread.
I don't see @randowhale as a curation bot, but rather a payout pumping bot. I don't know if that distinction is worth more comment, but that's a counter-point to @randowhale allegedly ruining post curation.
Curation isn't "thwarted" by a payout bot.