I like the Steemhunt business model and I follow the project with a lot of interest.
I was checking the top 10 hunts yesterday and saw that they are rewarded by upvotes from Steemhunt.
I was wondering what the requirements are to receive an upvote from Steemhunt. (aka what do you need to do to get in the top 10).
So I went to their discord and asked.
It's pretty simple.
5 minutes after KST (korean) midnight the voting bot looks at the 'hunts' (posts) with the most payouts and upvotes accordingly.
I also noticed the same name in the top 3 yesterday.
A little digging and it was easy to find out this person use a votebot to buy some votes to get there.
A minimum investment to get a maximum ROI! Very clever!
The flaw is clear though, it's most likely that not the bests hunts are in top 10.
Of course, non of this is anybody's fault. It's a known problem.
Right now there is just not a better way to automate payouts (non moderated) based on the most popular hunts.
SMT's will go a long way in fixing this.
I talk about it more in my vlog.
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