Until yesterday, I got few upvotes, coming from "human" users, and they gave me few earnings.
That's ok, I got the real idea of the impact that the post had on the community, and the few earnings were (more or less) proportional to the upvotes received.
But starting from today I discovered that when I publish a post, many upvotes arrive immediately, but zero earning.
I am sure this is bot job, since many upvotes are from "users" with zero posts and they arrive too fast for being "human" (really after a fraction of second after publishing).
I think this is confusing users and not really giving them the correct perception about the post effectiveness.
There must be a way to correct this, I think, so let's see what developers will decide to do.
Please let me know your opinion and suggestions about that.
Cheers!
Some bots have huge balances. When they upvote you, you get rewarded money. You can't judge a bot based purely by reward. Plenty of real people have upvotes which don't bring any reward.
It's true that many real people which upvote don't bring rewards.
About bots with huge balances, I didn't know about them.
But my doubt is: if they have huge balances, why they should upvote a post without knowing the real content of it?
see @wang for an example of a bot with a huge balance
Yes, but if you check he doesn't upvote anyone, just comments
Look at his wallet see those posts for curation rewards. That's because it upvotes posts.
hmmm upvote me
Bots are natural progression. Macros, programs and such automate and extend our capabilities organically. It makes sense.
I know bots are ok, but why they upvote? What's the use of upvote count if it's somehow not real?
Just noticed that too. I am sure that Steemit will find a proper solution.
they are just annoying help distracts the user from finding decent blogs, we need to start reporting to steem.
Ohh the irony, a post about bots the first comment comes from a bot!!
Get accustomed to that, will be very frequent! :D