There can only be one king of the mountain!
Did you ever play "king of the mountain" as a kid?
Simple, you choose a random pile of dirt, or elevated area as the "mountain" and someone steps in as king. Others try to knock that player off the mountain, thus becoming king.
You can only stay on top of the bot votes for so long.
They are inherently limited, even as their power grows, so too do the number of users, watering down the power they have. Each bot can only vote so many times in a 24 hour period, and you must be the first, or the biggest bid, or hit the target exactly, in the case of some, in order to get the votes.
Not only this, but your window is very limited. It's almost impossible to bring a post that is not fresh, up in the trending standings.
It's much like trying to be the biggest bully on the block. Eventually, someone gets bigger than you, and knocks you off the mountain. How will your audience respond? Some of them will stay, guess who? YOUR ORGANIC FOLLOWERS! The ones who like you for you, who enjoy your content and have developed community. But:
- The curation guilds will quickly shift their votes to earn higher profits
- The speculators will abandon you immediately.
- If you don't have enough active followers, you're on the way down.
And here's an important principle.
I learned this teaching theater and directing for almost twenty years.
It's not hard to get attention, any fool can stand in a crowd and look up at the sky to gain attention. Once you have it, you'd better keep it, because once you lose it, it's very difficult to get it back.
That's why many "top earners" that were on the top of trending six months ago, are nowhere to be seen now. Someone else is a better version of them. They've burned out, or dropped back. Some have checked out altogether, and earn money renting their vote power, or running bots.
So, since, in the end, the organic followers are the only ones you can truly depend on, why not just aim to develop them from the very beginning?
So, there you have it, ten reasons I think organic beats bot votes every single time. Tell me what you think? Got a better idea? I'm all ears.