I'm new here so excuse me if I got something wrong but I think of Shadowbot as an enhancement from what i have read. The better you do the more you earn and it takes time to build a base of people who like what you do. If you do poorly you will have few followers if you do content that everyone wants to read you will do well. As for pulling out your sbd when you don't have but a few 100 is a bad idea you should be putting that into upvote bots or turn it into steem power but to draw it out and then come here and complain...yea they will tell you not to pull out your sbd and to invest into your self. If you don't see your self good enough to invest into why would anyone else.
" i strongly believe BTC growth will be more than steem this year, so converting to BTC at the right time" Holding SBD and using it to powerup your account is two different things. Powering up from 50/50 to 100% builds your account and it's not going to happen over night, you will have to work at it and become good. Then you make post about how Shadowbot doesn't work for you..... people explain this and you still complain. To be honest I'm shocked they didn't kick you out of the pool already.
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Shadow Rank boosts are calculated once per week, but that does not mean every caster each week receives a boost. Shadow Rank is used as a balance based on your performance outside ShadowBot relative to how much ShadowBot provides to you. As we scale in users, the ability to earn Shadow Rank will continue to get harder since we are shifting to a priority on re-investing in your Steem Power for growing pool priority. Those who build up and earn and then re-invest their earnings into Steem Power will see the biggest benefit in the coming months from ShadowBot.
If you stick with the program your rank will continue to increase over time, we are shifting to display the full fractions of boosts (under 1) but currently this is not supported by our display system. You may see 22 or 33 or 11 but it actually could be 22.2 or 33.1 or 11.5, does that make sense? I know it is a little confusing that is why we are updating everything this week to support and display the full Shadow Rank you have.