I went over to @booster's profile before I bid last night to make sure I was following the bot's rules.
I was super excited to try the @booster bidbot last night because according to bottrackers they have a pre-vote club. The pre-vote club is supposed to add extra votes to your post in addition to the one that @booster is to provide. Those extra votes help propel your post into the trending.
As I had written my review of @sneaky-ninja yesterday morning and it already had some good organic upvotes; I wanted to boost it onto trending to get the word out about my Royal Bot Review series. I submitted my bid at 1 AM and went to bed excited that my post that was less than 24 hours old and was going to go trending.
I woke up this morning excited to see my post get boosted by @booster …. Then I saw this message:
I was quiet disappointed!
So I visited the @booster site to see why my post wasn't accepted and why it took so long for them to return my SBD.
Here is the link to their what is acceptable post:
https://steemit.com/booster-update/@booster/booster-is-back-need-an-upvote-booster-is-loaded-longform-info-and-howto
Here is the information on their return policy from the link above.
The Most accurate & Advanced return-policy
Since day one customer experience has been the most important to design for. We want 100% satisfied customers. If we cannot deliver an upvote, booster will automatically issue a refund.
Well this isn't TRUE, it took over 5 hours to refund a bid even though there were 2 vote rounds between when I submitted it and it was denied in which many people were upvoted.
Then I was thinking maybe they have some other policy I was breaking?? So I kept reading.
Avoid using BOOSTER for "ShitPosts" of no value to anyone - Booster HAS a Blacklist
As STEEM & GOLOS grows, Quality of Content is more and more important. We have been very liberal in how our customers use BOOSTER. However, we reserve the rights to at any time reverse the transaction and remove upvotes on posts that bring no value to anyone whatsoever. Example is gambling addicts that will write 10-20 shitposts per day (copy/paste images and write a little paragraph of text that nobody reads) trying to "get something for almost nothing" by voting for these totally useless posts with small to large amounts of coins. It is better to keep the quality high and the quantity low if you want to be really successful on STEEM with your blog.
As my post didn’t break the posted rules they asked people to follow. I was confused why my hours old post wasn't accepted, so I went over to their steemd site and took a look at what was being upvoted by @booster.
I read the log between when I bid and when my SBD was returned. I found that @booster loves to upvote bots and spam accounts! Here is block level proof of 8 different posts between my bid and the return: picture of post, steemd address where post can be found and also a direct link to where @booster upvoted it.
https://steemd.com/steemtools/@steemtools/steemtools-20180128t045941539z
https://steemd.com/tx/d138df8e59f2a90da54fd4aa9d68b7ff68b0df44
https://steemd.com/pingpong/@pingpong/pingpong-20180128t051120288z
https://steemd.com/tx/c6b611884542b581da1aaa8f2e42df8658d83ef7
https://steemd.com/upvoteforfree/@upvoteforfree/upvoteforfree-20180128t041523122z
https://steemd.com/tx/0c84e264c08f86d5da4d23522e682277f498311b
https://steemd.com/myup/@myup/myup-20180128t053156075z
https://steemd.com/tx/6f0d38b8bebb66f9b75c81bf7849e9edc3dda001
https://steemd.com/honesty/@virgowattoo/honesty-is-the-best-policy-68d8c8c6df084
https://steemd.com/tx/7086d9d8195ab152cba716bd3cfd97e02d67129e
https://steemd.com/steemtools/@steemtools/steemtools-20180128t072456036z
https://steemd.com/tx/b2eb6731ea62acafa9ffdfa29c22b9c6f46f8a5f
https://steemd.com/upvoteforfree/@upvoteforfree/upvoteforfree-20180128t091720132z
https://steemd.com/tx/e84f299a675c8302bffa5a038d735cf5b291731d
https://steemd.com/myup/@myup/myup-20180128t075729305z
https://steemd.com/tx/b8b53c2b042dabcf0d4aca8d2b57efbfc9a67c31
The only one of those that was maybe generated by a human is the @virgowattoo The rest are all spam bots with no original content.
Your website says:
Avoid using BOOSTER for "ShitPosts" of no value to anyone
Example is gambling addicts that will write 10-20 shitposts per day (copy/paste images and write a little paragraph of text that nobody reads) trying to "get something for almost nothing" by voting for these totally useless posts with small to large amounts of coins
Apparently these spam bot posts, that no one reads, have more value than original content posted by humans...
Here are some questions I would love the @booster team to answer:
Why don't you upvote people with original content?
Why do you have a 5 hour or greater return policy, when you advertise an immediate refund?
Why was my less than day old article rejected?
What didn't you like about my bot review?
Why do you upvote bots which clearly posted computer generated SHITPOST? ( as defined by you)
Is your bidbot rigged for only your friends and their bots?
Customers and sponsors you should know this team doesn't actually care about quality posts or comments only the $.
Like my work? Check out the other bid bots I have reviewed, or stop by my weekly contest for redfish and minnows.
Here is a list of other bots I have reviewed in #royalbotreview & #botreviews :
Bots I am neutral on:
@upmewhale
@allaz
@steembloggers
@sneaky-ninja
@boomerang Please read about this bot before you use it!
Stay away:
@mrswhale
@getboost
I hope you enjoyed this post, it took me 3 hours to do all the research, acquire the pictures and write this up.
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