When you are a beginner these offers to upvote your posts sound great. I joined several of them by simply following them.
It took a few weeks for me to find my voting power never went over 88% no matter how long I left it to regenerate. Often it went down when I hadn't upvoted anyone.
I looked into this yesterday. I went to SteemitWhales.com then to their steemd tag where I found that somehow I had upvoted posts I had never even seen or read.
Examining these listed upvotes showed that bots from these so-called 'upvote boosters' had voted on my behalf.
They had only given the post they voted on a 1% upvote but it had counted on my voting power so that's why it never went past 88%.
I've been here about 3 months but never realized this.
I'm not complaining at all. I just didn't understand that this would happen so thought I'd share it for beginners.
Think carefully before you join these upvoters. Do you want bots to vote in your name for posts you haven't even read?
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