Stax uses around 60% of it's daily voting power for vote swapping and self voting before 1 of it's members is upvoted. I recently wrote a post about it, STAX has roughly a -60% ROI compared with leasing the some SP out. It's been lining the pockets of the owner for over 18 months in a really nasty way.
And FYI, silvergoldbotty has no connection to any silver and gold stacking community on steemit. Stax started out as a community bot which the whole #steemsilvergold community pumped, upvoted and some even made large STEEM donations. After a few months, the owner of the bot decided the account was his and he owned the wallet. Stax was kicked out of the #steemsilvergold labeled a thief.
Since then, it has been on a slow decline using all it's voting SP for things like SBI vote swapping. The fact that the bot is a futured member shows the level of greed the owner of Stax has.
My 2 cents
https://steemit.com/upvote/@steemcryptosicko/calling-out-all-members-of-silvergoldbotty-aka-stax
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Thanks for letting us know! We were not aware of these issues...
Being featured in our update is not something that any account pays for - we select an account from our own enhanced votes graph. I had some concerns about the account being a potential competitor, but decided that was not sufficient reason to not feature them.
It sounds like I should have followed my misgivings and researched further on how their VP is actually spent before featuring them.
Edit: I read the linked post, and while we have no issue with your side-by-side comparison, I do have concerns about this sentence:
I compared the STU for 500 SP delegated to @steembasicincome against your chart and our daily would currently be $0.1876 against your $0.18, but with the added benefit of not having to post everyday to get that reward. If you missed a day, it would stack and your next upvote would be bigger to make up for it.
You do have to be enrolled in @steembasicincome for 1 STEEM to receive the benefits of direct delegation.