The list below represents the 25 largest net transfers to bid-bots for the promotion of articles posted on Steemit yesterday.
Due to formatting restrictions, only a few columns can be displayed.
Note: Due to the complexity of certain promotional tools and their associated refunding mechanisms, some smaller refunds may be duplicated or missed.
What is this report?
Many authors choose to promote their posts via Bid-Bots. In return for direct payment, the bots will upvote your article. This service is fully "legal" on Steemit and used by minnows and whales alike.
There are many reasons why an author may want to purchase votes.
- Give the impression that the article is of substantial value and perhaps you should think so too.
- Cause the article to make it to the "Hot" or "Trending" category where it gets more exposure and more votes.
- Cause the payout to increase so that anyone that votes on the post will share in a higher curation pool.
- Attempt to make a direct profit on the vote by receiving a vote that nets more than the cost of the bid.
- Increase the authors reputation by receiving large SP votes. High SP votes move the reputation quickly.
- Support another author or entity indirectly through a Bid-bot.
The list is sorted with the highest NET amounts paid to the Bid-bots on top in descending order.
- From = The user who sent the payment to the bot.
- Gross Bids (SBD) = The total of all bids sent to the bots in SBD or Steem for this single post.
- After Refunds (SBD) = The net total of all bids sent less refunds received back in SBD or Steem for this single post.
- Article Payout = The total STU (SBD/SP) payout value of for the entire article (not just from bots). This is the total paid to the author and curators. (This is the $ value which shows on the bottom of every post.)
- Link is the direct link to the article that has been promoted via the bid bot.
Largest Net Bids sent to Bidbots and and other post promoters
| Date | From | Gross Bids | After Refunds | Article Payout | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-29 | @yallapapi | $443.50 | $406.53 | $933.05 | Link |
| 4-29 | @steemcafe | $630.00 | $400.00 | $897.43 | Link |
| 4-29 | @prameshtyagi | $333.00 | $333.00 | $780.69 | Link |
| 4-29 | @abrockman | $300.00 | $300.00 | $715.05 | Link |
| 4-29 | @chbartist | $365.00 | $300.00 | $689.60 | Link |
| 4-29 | @chronocrypto | $200.00 | $199.54 | $260.40 | Link |
| 4-29 | @leftbank | $150.00 | $147.33 | $348.39 | Link |
| 4-29 | @martinphoto | $140.70 | $140.23 | $280.36 | Link |
| 4-29 | @learnguitar | $122.00 | $117.90 | $119.62 | Link |
| 4-29 | @tj4real | $116.00 | $115.70 | $235.24 | Link |
| 4-29 | @runicar | $110.00 | $110.00 | $237.29 | Link |
| 4-29 | @vandrei.razvan | $110.00 | $110.00 | $235.04 | Link |
| 4-29 | @charles1 | $102.00 | $101.45 | $232.39 | Link |
| 4-29 | @tcpolymath | $100.00 | $99.72 | $356.63 | Link |
| 4-29 | @muratkbesiroglu | $99.50 | $99.23 | $259.96 | Link |
| 4-29 | @cryptno | $91.00 | $91.00 | $223.83 | Link |
| 4-29 | @alexko-steemit | $90.00 | $88.87 | $213.18 | Link |
| 4-29 | @fatkat | $81.50 | $81.50 | $191.34 | Link |
| 4-29 | @jjerryhan | $79.55 | $79.55 | $186.28 | Link |
| 4-29 | @juliank | $77.00 | $76.91 | $71.88 | Link |
| 4-29 | @rishan | $76.00 | $76.00 | $235.50 | Link |
| 4-29 | @gringalicious | $77.00 | $75.46 | $285.95 | Link |
| 4-29 | @harferri | $71.36 | $71.34 | $161.82 | Link |
| 4-29 | @watwrongwitunews | $70.00 | $70.00 | $138.45 | Link |
| 4-29 | @juliank | $66.00 | $64.51 | $132.86 | Link |
Sometimes great articles get to the top because they are great articles.
Sometimes other articles get to the top because there was sufficient money to pay for that placement. It is up to the community to judge if the rewards pool is being properly managed and distributed in a fair and honest manner.
The wonderful thing about Steemit and the Steem blockchain is everything is transparent
allowing you and all those who care about this platform to be educated on how to properly use the platform as well as how to protect it.
As a result of digging even deeper on the longer term problems associated with bidbots, I have launched a new tool called @transparencybot, which seeks to bring more transparency and education on the use of bidbots to everyone.
You can read more about this mission here.
Please resteem this post if you think this information might be useful to the Steemit community.
@bycoleman
https://ColemanAir.us
Craig
Who pay the most?
Those whom pay for exposure and try to get to trending.
The best bidbots in terms of ROI and in other terms will not get ur post to trending.
The biggest bidbots yield low ROI.
I rarely check what is trending, I do check my feed.
Once a thread gets to trending, it becomes unreadable due to multitude of comments and steemit's impotence to deal with it.
If a thread is very good, it will probably be spread via resteems so I will find it despite my dismissal of the trending page.
I have also encountered a case when someone exposed one of the whales and knew he will get downvoted full force by that whale, so that one made a heavy use of bidbots and the whale failed to censor him.
The dude should have took what was coming to him and get censored.
Yes, I really agree with you on the bots and ROI. The real problem is the bots are sucking the rewards pool dry and leaving everyone else with the crumbs.
Staying away from the trending list is a very good response.
Blessings!
Some of the bots yield very good ROI and avoiding them is wrong.
Some of the bots are the only way for me to get more than fractions of crumbs out of the reward pool, because they help me suck it.
I pay them, and a few of them deserve to get paid for the honest service they maintain.
Most of the bidbots are owned by scammers, but not all of them.
Instead of trying to expose the scammers, whom wrongfully profit of the reward pool while stealing from people, you want to eradicate them all.
I do it out of habit and laziness, not out of principle.
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People are paying crazy amounts to get on trending. I rarely look there are the quality is not great. I won't vote on posts that mostly have bought votes
You are so correct, they are crazy amount and they get bigger by the week.
Hopefully more and more people will come to the same conclusion as you and not vote on these heavily boosted posts. They get nothing for their vote, the bots get it all.