What is the 
bot?
The
voting bot is a service and reward mechanism for valued members of the sports and sports-related community and is managed by the BRO Sports™ Network. It consists of a vetted whitelist of Steem users who have been consistently producing good content for, participating and engaging in, and/or developing worthwhile projects in/for the sports community. The users on this list have come from a personally vetted pool of bloggers based on more than a year and a half of experience blogging and curating on the platform.
What is the purpose of the bot?
This account maintains a manually selected and updated list of accounts that do not spam, scam, post (subjectively) low-quality content, and aren’t sock puppets (as far as we know). It is a dual-purpose project meant to not only reward established authors/users for their sports-related content, but to provide curators with a list of vetted individuals that they can support with their limited voting power.
The
This bot is also designed to be a rewarding mechanism for official BRO Sports™ Network contributors for their sports-related content on their own individual blogs. It's one of the "perks" for being part of the official BRO Sports™ team.
These are the rules for the bot, so please pay attention in order to avoid losing money or having your feelings hurt!
Only vetted and listed users are eligible to use this bot. The list of eligible users are those that can be found on this account’s “followed” list, here: https://steemit.com/@bro-sports/followed . Any user on this list can use the bot and they can use it only on their own posts.
There is no excessive use of the
Comments are not eligible. Only parent posts are eligible to receive votes. If a comment link is submitted, a refund will be issued and no vote will be cast.
No posts over 48 hours old are eligible. Posts can only receive votes after 15 minutes have passed and no later than 48 hours after posting. If a link is submitted before 15 minutes have passed, then the vote will be delayed until at least 15 minutes after the post was published. If a link is submitted for a post after day two (48 hours after posting), a refund will be issued and no vote will be cast.
How the bot works.
Send a minimum of 0.01 SBD to
Copy and paste into the “memo” field the link of the parent post that you’d like to upvote with the
Why are you charging for this service?
The minimal fee of 0.01 SBD is necessary to leave control in the hands of the individual author. They alone will be choosing which posts they want to promote through our service. Since it is fully-automated on the blockchain, this is the best way to trigger our bot and direct it to the proper post. While 0.01 SBD is a very small fee, we do have some expenses to cover, so this will help cover the costs of the bot and also add to the pool of the development funds for the BRO Sports™ Network in general.
We are allowing additional SBD donations for this service and for the network if the authors feel like offering more for the service – but this is not required and voting weight is not calculated based on the size of the transfer.
Any SBDs acquired through this service will be split 50/50 for operations and powering up the
Curators are wanted for additional benefits to our vetted users.
The purpose of the
bot is not to sell votes. We want our vetted users to be able to receive additional attention from anyone who trusts our vetting process and has reviewed our list of users. If you approve of this project and want to reward those users who have earned our trust as eligible recipients of our services, then please consider adding these people to your own voting list or follow our votes as they are cast.
These are the user and voting targets that we hope to achieve:
The
The bot’s ideal average vote target at current STEEM Power levels will be approximately 40 votes per day at an average weight of approximately 25% per vote. This should keep voting power at or above the daily allowance and reduce or virtually eliminate any down time due to voting strength. It will also keep allocation/rewards from the
If you’re a curator looking for better automated services, a user that cannot put in the time for curating quality posts, or if you just happen to have an extra account or two that you’d like to put into action, please consider following the votes from this account. A SteemAuto trail has been set up to make this easier for the average user.
All votes cast by 
While the bot is currently fully operational, it is still in the experimental stage.
Things may break and targets may need adjusting over time, so don’t treat anything in this post as a guaranteed target or outcome over the long-term. There may need to be some fine-tuning in order to meet targets or those targets may prove to be inadequate altogether. The whitelist is also still growing, so don’t expect full capacity to be immediately reached.
If you are on the whitelist but do not want to be on it or associated with this project, please let us know so that we can free that space for another user.
