Yesterday @Heimindanger published a post called "Operation Clean Trending" which you can read here where he presented us a solution to fight the upvote bots.
The problem with bots is that they have made Steemit "Pay-to-win". Instead of posts of great value in the trending section, you see advertisement there or demands like "Make me a Logo"...
This destroys the trending section and makes it impossible for new Steemians to reach the trending section even when they are writing very good & well-formatted content because they simply do not have the SBD's to boost themselves up and because of that drown in the masses.
One could now say that new Steemians shouldn't reach trending but I find that ignorant because just because you are new on Steemit doesn't mean that you haven't written game-breaking content somewhere else.
"So how and where can we use Heimindanger's website to fight against the bots?"
On the website https://steemwhales.com/clean-trending/ you can see a table with trending posts that were boosted sky-high with bots as you can see in the screenshot below.
On the left, you can mark which post you want to downvote, the author and the title. On the right side, you see how much SBD they invested to boost the post, the number of upvotes from bots (in %) and the percentage of the downvotes.
You simply have to login with your Steemit name and your private posting key, mark what you want to downvote and click on "Downvote the trash" and you will have done something really important for Steemit!
Note: Every downvote will have a vote strength of 100%, so do not mark too many posts!**
Fear of Receiving Downvotes Back
Of course everyone will be thinking "What if they downvote us back oh my god". If you fight there will be casualties of course, but if you are a minnow you will not be among the casualties because you have nothing to lose.
They can downvote your $1,00 posts, that ain't anything, you will do far more damage to them because every "-" in the Authors total payouts that used bots is a message that the people are tired of that shit.
That will put pressure on the bot-owners to either stop or to adjust their bots. For example that they hire people to keep the blacklist up to date!
This also motivates people to simply write better content and also to start understanding that networking is way more important than posting to increase your total payouts.
So if you want that cash you simply have to become a part of a Steemit community and make friends here.
So do not be afraid, Steemit warrior, fight the good fight and use your downvotes to show the bot owners that the people are tired of that shit.
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