My Travel Article; Same Reward with no Bid-Bots

This is not another anti bid-bot post. I have stated previously that I am not one to judge others on why they should veto these ‘services’.

No, this post is simply to state that one of my recent articles attained the same reward value as it would previously have done in my self-voting days.

I am not expecting to get this kind of reward for everything I write and this has certainly not happened with most of the other posts.

@daan mentioned in his recent post that he feels more content for not using bots and I feel the more vocal we can be about this topic, then more people may follow our leads.

I too feel that same contentment he does, no pretend values, more respect from the community and everything as it was intended to be when Steemit was first created.

However to get back to the original topic I want to thank the curation trails who picked up on my ‘Kenya’ post, namely @steemitworldmap, @c-squared, @travelfeed, @curie and @thesteemengine.

The sense of appreciation you get when even a small trail picks up on your work always gives me a buzz. I have the greatest respect for all of these curation trails, and always vote them up and thank them when I get noticed.

I will admit I did target some of these groups hoping I would get their attention and used their tags, and it worked out for me.

I will also say that the article I wrote was over 1000 words and took some effort to put together, digging out photographs from 9 years ago, and trying to remember all the details with the help of @bingbabe.

Source

I now have a permanent record on the blockchain of my travel event that I can show to people like my mother who doesn’t use the internet, but is quite happy to take my iPad and read something I have put together.

You don’t get something for nothing and if you put the work and effort into creating something readable then it pays off, this is what it’s all about.

All photographs are either my own or are marked as 'Labelled for reuse'.