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This change I wanted to be is in the bid bots section of the steembottracker.
Perviously buildawhale is a bid bots so he put buildawhale in the bid bots section. But actually buildawhale should be in the other bot section like randowhale.
Bid-based voting bots work on a bidding system. You can send any amount of SBD above the minimum (minimums vary for each bot) and once the bot account reaches 100% voting power it splits a 100% upvote between all of the bids based on each bid's % of the total amount bid during that period.
It takes 2.4 hours for voting power to return to 100% after a 100% upvote so each bidding period typically lasts roughly 2.4 hours. Recently some bots have switched to giving out a 50% upvote every 1.2 hours instead. You can see this indicated next to the "Vote Value" in the table below.
Take the following example: With a 2.4 hour bidding period user A sends $1 to a voting bot and user B sends $3. The total bid is $4 so that means that user A will get a 25% upvote on their post and user B will get a 75% upvote. If the bot's 100% upvote is worth more than $4 then both user A and B will receive an upvote worth more than they have spent.
Please note that vote values are based on the current value of STEEM. As STEEM prices rise or fall the value of votes will too. Additionally 25% of the value of votes cast more than 30 minutes after a post has been made go to the curation rewards, so for a $0.75 payment you would need at least a $1.00 upvote to be profitable if you are taking curation rewards into account.
Each voting bot has their own quirks and rules and those can change at any time. I do the best I can to keep this site up to date however it is your responsibility to check each voting bot before you use it. You can click on the links in the table below to go to the SteemIt profile page for each bot.
Reference source: https://steembottracker.com/
I will explain why I think he is not a bid bot.
buildawhale upvote is not 100% in totalThe total upvote percent is not 100% so he is violating the bid bot rule.
If you check buildawhale upvote is not 100% in total and the above two pictures, He is upvoting 3.8% for 5 SBD. 22.81% for 30 SBD and 5.32% for 7 SBD. His 3.8% worth around 7.34 STU. So Everyone who uses buidawhale is a loser.
He is giving a fixed return instead of giving a propotioanal upvote. This is violating bid bot manner as I mention above.
He also change the time frame. This is viloating bid bot rule.
So buildawhale should be removed from bid bot list.
Did he cheat everyone.
I did not see the post he mention that buildawhale is changing upvote rule. May be I make a mistake.
To @Yabapmatt Did he aknowledge about his code change. Please tell me.
Proposal
Please remove buildawhale from Buildbot list and put him in other bot list. If he make a mistake give some compensation for the streemians who use his service. He should respect other streemians. If it is not his mistake, do nothing. May be he won't give any compensation even if he make a mistake. So forget about the compensation and apology. Please find out about the other bots. Are they doing the same. I will also report what I notice.
Mockups / Examples
No example.
Benefits
It will gain trust from streemians. @Yabapmatt should solve the problem as fast as possible. Showing non bid bot in the bid bot section make confusing a lots of people including me. I will not use his service if he is a bot that return a fixed value and that fixed value make us a loser.
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