While these paid voting bots increase the exposure of posts and the reputation, there are also downsides: if used too early they disincentivise upvoting of those who want to earn curation rewards, some voters might consider the (quality of post)/(potential payout) ratio before upvoting and others might just not like self-upvoting via bots.
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I read this posted by @rahvin88
I read that these whalebots make really good money from this. There has to be some balance, otherwise, the rest will be doomed here. I am not sure how the incentives for curation rewards work after self-upvoting via bots, but I will check it. So what is the solution for now?
Anyway, there are self-upvoting via bots, and the self-upvoting people up there. The self-upvoting people up there might not have good quality content, but still they make $$$
The people with good content self-upvote via bots to promote(they just got tired depending on others, it's not the others fault, it's the system), and if people think the content promoted is bad, they will not upvote anyway.