Anyone can go to www.steembottracker.com and basically pay SBDs for getting whale upvotes - regardless of post quality. The result is that many of these promoted posts automatically show up in the trending section with huge upvote values, fooling newcomers to think it's great content, when it's actually just someone having paid for his post to appear that way.
Another result is that these bidbot accounts are basically getting countless SBDs in exchange for them upvoting stuff with their constantly recharging voting power (which does not cost them anything).
As a 'counter' to the many shitposts that appear in the trending section because of this, many people in the community have started using the #nobidbot tag to show that they have not used paid promotion on their posts. It has become somewhat of an open and ongoing battle in the Steemit community ;)
Oh wow really? Man, I have not explored too deeply it seems. But lets be honest, people will find any way of making additional or easier cash if they can....theres an entire Nigerian group making millions with their 'strange work' and millionaire payouts LOL
Appreciate you taking the time to let me know what was being referred to
J Iike you I feel a little overwhelmed with all this bot stuff. Have no clue whats good and whats bad.....so I just do what I can trying to provide uplifting story, comment and lessons that will ultimately add value to the lives of my readers.
Thank you, but that is something I have not encountered.
I'm still reasonably new, so how does that work?
Anyone can go to www.steembottracker.com and basically pay SBDs for getting whale upvotes - regardless of post quality. The result is that many of these promoted posts automatically show up in the trending section with huge upvote values, fooling newcomers to think it's great content, when it's actually just someone having paid for his post to appear that way.
Another result is that these bidbot accounts are basically getting countless SBDs in exchange for them upvoting stuff with their constantly recharging voting power (which does not cost them anything).
As a 'counter' to the many shitposts that appear in the trending section because of this, many people in the community have started using the #nobidbot tag to show that they have not used paid promotion on their posts. It has become somewhat of an open and ongoing battle in the Steemit community ;)
Oh wow really? Man, I have not explored too deeply it seems. But lets be honest, people will find any way of making additional or easier cash if they can....theres an entire Nigerian group making millions with their 'strange work' and millionaire payouts LOL
Appreciate you taking the time to let me know what was being referred to
J Iike you I feel a little overwhelmed with all this bot stuff. Have no clue whats good and whats bad.....so I just do what I can trying to provide uplifting story, comment and lessons that will ultimately add value to the lives of my readers.