I wanted to know how many of all upvotes on a daily basis are being done by paid voting services. So I dived into the Steem blockchain and counted all upvotes by all known paid voting bots.
I have made a list of all the known voting bots using https://steembottracker.com.
Here's the result...
Approximately 1.7% of all votes are done by a paid voting service. And as you can see in the chart, the paid votes are quite in line with the total number of votes.
Daily number of votes
| Date | Votes | Paid bot votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-13 | 745,468 | 11,803 |
| 2018-03-12 | 748,848 | 11,604 |
| 2018-03-11 | 711,500 | 11,283 |
| 2018-03-10 | 662,208 | 11,369 |
| 2018-03-09 | 640,175 | 11,726 |
| 2018-03-08 | 737,293 | 13,058 |
| 2018-03-07 | 777,449 | 13,716 |
2. Weekly number of votes
| Date | Votes | Paid bot votes |
|---|---|---|
| 201810 | 5,078,544 | 88,376 |
| 201809 | 4,935,492 | 89,606 |
| 201808 | 5,099,772 | 89,875 |
| 201807 | 5,083,608 | 86,787 |
| 201806 | 4,712,805 | 77,204 |
| 201805 | 4,931,440 | 86,818 |
| 201804 | 4,675,230 | 82,053 |