Yeah, that's crazy! I have only used the big bots a couple of times and usually only the minimum bid, 2-3 SBD. It is hit or miss. There are a few "minnow bots" that I use regularly. @thundercurator and @earthnation-bot are much more regulated. They are both less than .05SBD, have good, consistent returns, and interesting rules to keep it classy. Thunder actually reads every post and leaves a unique comment. Earthnation has a 3-day cool down to keep voting power up. I was also using the @qurator exclusive bot, but it got hacked yesterday, sadly :(
These won't get you anywhere near the main trending page, but can help get over the hump of no one seeing your posts. Humans are funny, and if we come across something that looks like no one else has approved of yet, we are much less likely to even consider looking.
Thanks for the post and sorry for hijacking the thread, just thought I'd share in case other minnows are interested. :D
You're not hijacking the thread, you're contributing to the discussion. It's just things like this is not sustainable. The only way to get noticed to buy votes and since buying votes for 500SBD can only get you $100 (much less after curation)....who's going to continue doing that?
Well thank you. And yes, I totally agree. Not at all sustainable and probably not a healthy practice for the platform.
Never say minnow again. No being of love is above another and we are not participating in an imaginary hierarchy or capitalist monetary system.
We are generating and sharing love while excluding all capitalist behavior as intentional way of life. Everything is fixed if we adhere to the truth and treat all lunging zombies like the walking infection they choose to represent.
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I'm a little conflicted on this. I think I understand what you're saying about an "imaginary hierarchy," in that our worth or status should not be tied to the size of our account. I agree with that.
Still, the term does carry some meaning outside of social status. It is a descriptive reality that the more SP you have the more bandwidth you have and the greater impact your votes have. I am willing to argue that these positions can influence the moral and social responsibility that you have, given the way that it effects how the system runs.
That's really the biggest problem with decentralization, it becomes this pseudo pure capitalistic thing where the ones who have the most resources has the most power
Absolutely. Decentralization is a form of privatization, which is a capitalist's dream scenario. I think open markets can be magnificent things. But I also know greed will always try to exploit the unregulated nature of those. A great decentralized platform needs to think about how those forces ought to be addressed and have parameters to keep them at a tolerable and functional level.