9 days ago 
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jerrybanfield/10-ways-to-fund-a-steem-growth-project
As far as I understood it, his post is mainly about how you can make money on Steemit. And how he can make money with you making money. One of these ways is using the voting bot he has running on his account.
Wait a minute???
His account IS a voting bot???? Are you kidding me???
Nope. It is true. You can just take a look inside of his wallet and you will see the bids coming in. When you use his bot, you will also get a personal automated comment beneath your post. You can get an impression of it under "comments" on Jerry´s account.
I have to admit, I am not a fan of voting bots. I don´t exactly know, where I have heard this rumour, but somebody told me Steemit was a blogging platform and it´s all about valuable content and community. And the value you provide for the community is called proof of brain. And so Steem is created through proof of brain = Steem is created through the value for the community.
We have many discussions about voting bots. Can a bot separate between valuable and not so valuable content? Of corse not. So is this still proof of brain and providing value for the community or will Steemit finally end up with proof of money?
I am not the only person fearing that Steemit gets overtaken by greed. We had posts on Trending that only appeared there because of bots. And there are so many newbies thinking: "I have to use bots or I will forever be invisible".
How do I as a newbie and minnow feel, when I am not self-upvoting my posts and not buying votes from bots?
So why don´t I just do what everybody else does?
Because I care about the community. A self-upvote has nothing to do with the community liking my content. A bot-upvote in my eyes is nothing more than a self-upvote I have bought from somebody else. How far shall that go? Maybe we all could just create bots and bid for upvotes from bots with higher reputations? So we are able to grow our bot? We wouldn´t even have to talk anymore. Just give automated comments:
"Congratulations, you recieved a 28,64% upvote from "@nice-post-sir-bot"
No thanks. I´ve already had enough of those human "nice post sir" bots around here.
So Jerry is a bot. Is he?
Okay, he is still doing posts. When you dig in his comments, you can also find some personal unautomated ones. And he is a Steem witness. And I believe him, that he wants Steem to grow. Nobody should confuse Steem with Steemit.
He is doing a lot for Steem. Wether it´s the best for Steemit, I don´t know.
So Jerry is a human?
Uhm. Maybe. Honestly I am not sure anymore.
If he is a bot AND a human... that would mean, that... that would mean, that...that...
HE IS AN ANDROID!!!!
Sorry, but there is only this conclusion left. The future is already here.
The androids are already among us!
From now on, I have no other choice, than calling Jerry Banfield an android!
Say "Hi" Kids!!!
And what about you? Do you also want to become an android? Are you already a bot? Are you still human?
What´s your opinion? And what would be your android-name?
I guess mine would be "braindroid". But that´s not funny.
Greetings to all of you out there from a real human! See you on Steemit!
And remember:
Use your brain! Use your voice! Use your vote!
Edit: today I used a voting bot. Now that the vote came in, you can see it in the comments.
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