My main use for them is as you said, to get some earnings as a minnow and to grow my account. I got unlucky last night when that guy put 100SBD on like 6 different bots at once, did mine at the same time and didn't quite double my value.
But getting people liking your content and making a few $ a post, just from that, that's always a great feeling. Even better if you get someone with a higher up vote and you know you earned it.
That sad part is that he's not the only one doing this. This happens on a daily basis. Many authors are doing the exact same thing. Only to empower themselves because they can "afford" it.
However, they cannot afford to ruin Steemit... But they're too ignorant or selfish to see that they're contributing to the end of Steemit. In a more rapid way than they can imagine.
But they're also not the ones to blame, as "everyone" is doing this. But it takes only one person to change the behaviour of everyone. As long as it's someone with enough credibility and reputation.
I generally on some bots can get a triple+ return value, even with only a few SBD put on. But I stopped for a few weeks when a lot were always putting on 15SBD +
But I am only using it now and then, withdrawing some out to secure savings and get things I need atm, but I still like to put some back into Steemit for curators etc.
A max bid of $5 or whatever would stop this behaviour and ultimately even out the playfield for everyone.
That would also allow many authors to increase the rewards a little bit, instead of just a handful on each bidding round. - But I guess that'll never happen.
Yeah, and we are the 'ignorant assholes' for pointing this out to him!
Yeah, it's very unfortunate actually. He's doing what "everyone else" does, and he tried to defend his actions. However, I don't blame them for doing what they do. I just want them to think of others instead of themselves... Because that's how we will grow the community.
Making hundreds or thousands of SBDs right now is incredible and obviously amazing as it's worth ~7 times that... But that's also short term thinking.
Very much so and this was my main point I was trying to get across yesterday.
Not understanding (or pretending not to) that these massive votes blow everyone else away in the round by saying 'it doesn't affect other users' is very poor imo.
Probably the best defence. It's like saying "others do it too". But that doesn't justify the things you do. It just means that you are doing what others does.