| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["steem","bidbots","thoughts"],"appCategory":"steem","appTitle":"What is your feeling on users using promotional bid bots?","appBody":"<p>I think this all boils down to three things:</p>\n<ol>\n <li><strong>Quality of the content being promoted at </strong></li>\n <li><strong>By how much</strong></li>\n <li><strong>Tag/Category of the said post</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<p>While quality is highly subjective, I think we can all agree that even before we hit the \"Submit\" button on our blog posts, we the author already have a general idea on the community's perceived quality on it or even how many users will likely read our post.</p>\n<p>Say for example a \"<strong>single photography</strong>\" post taken by a smartphone, do you as the author of the said post feels a $50 reward is appropriate when all you ever did was press \"click\" on a random scenery you come across with? </p>\n<p>Also the purpose of such promotional services is to promote something, to increase the posts visibility <strong>so that other people can get something out of it</strong>. Not really sure what people can get on a single photography post. :)</p>\n<p>Now compare that to the posts that are mostly being boosted right now: giveaway contest posts and delegation giveaways. </p>\n<p>I still do think that most of these users are just trying to have a legitimate excuse to use bidbots to an insane level but it's a fact that posts like this are the one that needs visibility so that newbies/planktons on the platform can see the post and participate. </p>\n<p>So yeah more or less I'm with you on this. I think they are fine as long as they are somewhat controlled. Personally for me, posts that are promoted over $20+ are already users who are trying to abuse the system. I mean if the topic of your post is say \"gaming\", a $20+ bid already guarantees you a spot at the Trending section for that tag so why need to boost it more?</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fk6zg5ysw","appParentAuthor":"cryptoandcoffee","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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