I can’t wait to read your tips posts! I’ve much been thinking a lot about how to get better at curation. I’d love to see a snapshot of my top 20 posts if you have time :) thank you for doing this!
As a side question ... if I use bots to upvote my posts, does that benefit the people who upvoted before the bot came along? I’m compiling data now to see when the bots are profitable for me. And judging by my husband’s curation rewards, it looks like it helps him too ... would there be any downsides to my followers if I use bots? Just not sure if their voting power skews the rewards?
Sure :)
Yes for sure. When I was using them i'd give people a chance to vote first, so to not impact their curation negatively.
They may not agree with the principle?
The best time to use a bot for $ is 1 minute after the post is created. I don't like to see it but there are users planning their submission around the bid windows for bots, so that the vote will come when the article is minutes old. - I don't vote on this content for that reason.
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much! This is really interesting! In your tips post, would you mind explaining when and why we should change our voting percentage?
Regarding bots, I feel bad for my followers that the rewards on my posts are so low. I was thinking that upvoting with bots a few days after I post will help. From what I've seen so far, the bots really won't help my rewards at all.
Is there another way to help followers who are upvoting my posts?
Changing the % is mainly to reserve your Voting Power.
For now, you'll need to give full votes to gain rewards, but in future, you can change the % say for comments - it's nice to upvote the best comments on your blog I think.
The bots will boost your rewards a little at times, but mostly they are not profitable and the money you pay is for 'advertising'.
Followers who are upvoting with commenting should comment so you can vote them :)