Thank you for showing us this because we all benefit from observing these transactions on the blockchain. That is a great strategy you shared here to last minute hit a voting bot with a big bid and then clean up the curation rewards. For this reason it is ideal to use voting bots that do some good and give back to eliminate the pure profit motive and unhappiness from getting a vote less than bid for. Sometimes for things to get better they have to get a lot worse.
For being an author, I have went through this same dilemma. Why post on Steem when I can make more filming a video course? I keep posting because when we focus completely on rewards and compare to what others are getting, we are guaranteed unhappiness no matter how much we are making. When we focus on how we can help each other, the rewards on each individual post are less important.
"That is a great strategy you shared here to last minute hit a voting bot with a big bid and then clean up the curation rewards."
Honestly, that's the least of my objections in this post, and practically thrown in as a cherry on top.
"Why post on Steem when I can make more filming a video course?"
The real question is, why post on 6500 times on Steem for 6+ months when someone else will just make that with 30 clicks? What incentive is there to provide value to make this platform work when this goes on?
PS - I'm fine with my rewards.
The problem is my cubicle-mate is doing no work, and making 10000x my salary. Right in front of my face.
It's hard to find a more effective way to kill productive motivation than that scenario.