I have to disagree. My witness project is dedicated to helping the Filipino community, and 90% of my votes go to them. This keeps them a bit more motivated to continue producing better blogs, and gets the community more attention.

When you say it doesn't create real value, how does it not? I preach constant reinvestment, and if they do reinvest in themselves, it keeps Steem and SBD on the platform.

And like I have said numerous times in my past blogs, this account will never power down. I also spend a lot of my own money boosting my blogs, to grow my account value which in return will allow me to give more money back to the community.

By utilizing upvote bots, it is essentially paying for advertising, and helping the boosters grow...which in return allows more people to spend their SBD on this site, to increase their account value.

The reason is is absolutely not spam, is because I choose the power and timing of my vote, and who to send it to. I think minnowbooster does great stuff for the community, but I feel many of their votes go to accounts that dont stay active.

My votes are staying in the Filipino community.

I hope this made sense, hard to write this and edit it while I am walking in a mall.

-Rob