How to determine "vote weight" given by the busy bots

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Last month, I wrote an article about How to Get an Upvote from the Busy bots, which explains how the bot functions and tells what requirements are needed in order for a steem account to qualify for an upvote. To those of you who haven't heard about Busy before and is too lazy to dig in to the link above, the gist of the said article is that:

In order for a steem account to qualify for a FREE upvote from the busy bots, one must:

1. Post from busy.org or staging.busy.org.
2. Include busy as one of your topic/tags.
3. Have a sufficient amount of influential people following you (counted by followers_mvest)

Days after I posted the article above, there have been some changes on how the Busy bots behave and how they throw their upvotes, particularly changes on the Upvote Weight. So I decided to make a somewhat updated blog post today about the bots, this time focusing on how much to expect the Busy Bots upvote will be worth.

But before that, let us first tackle what changed since last month aside from the upvote weight.

@busy.pay

Unlike last month's 10Billion follower_mvest requirement in order to qualify for an upvote from this bot, It was reduced ten-fold to only require 1Billion follower_mvest.

If you somehow noticed that the @busy.org account is no longer upvoting your post and was replaced by @busy.pay. Then congratulations on having a sufficient amount of influential followers following you. Good Job on being so interactive with other steemians! :)

Upvote Weight Changes

@busy.org

If you have been taking advantage of the busy boost feature for a while now, you might have noticed that the upvote weight(not upvote worth) is no longer random and is more constant now relative to one's steemit account. So I decided to do some digging and found out something interesting and that is a simple way to determine how much should we expect from the Busy bots.

Taken from @busy.org's SteemWorld

Consider the first 5 steem accounts above and looking at their followers_mvests on SteemDB:

janine-ariane - 563,743,878.432
gmreza - 354,722,519.042
utpoldebnath - 755,726,971.304
imran498 - 277,887,888.729
aitbilal - 368,402,612.084

By now you probably have noticed it too. But for those who didn't noticed it. When we divide a steem accounts followers_mvest by 1Billion, we get the estimated Upvote Weight that will be given by the @busy.org bot. Simple as that!

@busy.pay

Now consider @busy.pay upvotes below:

First 5 steem accounts and checking their followers_mvest through SteemDB:

ervin-lemark - 5,551,088,527.016
kristinaljfom - 9,931,196,312.577
puberty - 1,247,542,440.094
pixelfan - 1,143,929,495.807
catwomanteresa - 4,940,190,942.179

It's not that obvious at first glance but when we divide the followers_mvest of an account by two it will:

ervin-lemark - 2,775,544,263.508
kristinaljfom - 4,965,598,156.2885
puberty - 623,771,220.047
pixelfan - 571,964,747.9035
catwomanteresa - 2,470,095,471.0895

Dividing it by 1Billion will yield the same voting weight being given by the @busy.pay as shown on Steemworld.

Conclusion

To summarize, in order to determine the expected upvote weight that the busy bots will give, all you have to do is take a steem accounts followers_mvest which can be fetched on SteemDB. Example:

https://steemdb.com/@jlordc/data

For @busy.org, simply divide it by 1Billion and for @busy.pay, divide by 2 and then divide again by 1Billion to get the expected upvote weight.

P.S: Like last time I'm tagging @ntony and @fabien to verify if my assumptions and calculations above are true. :)