I started this experiment five days ago. I made a total of six posts. Each of these posts where upvoted by me using the Steem Bot Tracker
I didn't use any scientific means to select the bot to use except one: The payout after curation must be higher then the bid. The highest got my bid. Below is a series of screen clips.
This is a good one!
This is a good one!
This is a good one!
This is a good one!
This is NOT a good one!
So you can see that the last one is not suitable (at this time). The voting power of the bots goes up and down. What is good at this moment may not be good in 10 minutes so it is important to keep checking the bots all the time.
I then selected three of the highest bots for each post. Now, of course, you will not be getting a post upvote of the total amount as seen by the bots above. It is usually a percentage of that number.
Here is a look in my wallet of the posts that were upvoted and which bots I used.
4 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to aksdwi
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-1-to-use-bots-or-nots
4 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to buildawhale
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-1-to-use-bots-or-nots
4 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to appreciator
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-1-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to boomerang
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-2-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to buildawhale
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-2-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to booster
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-2-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to aksdwi
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-3-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to appreciator
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-3-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to booster
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-3-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to aksdwi
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-4-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to buildawhale
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-4-to-use-bots-or-nots
3 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to booster
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-4-to-use-bots-or-nots
2 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to appreciator
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-5-to-use-bots-or-nots
2 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to boomerang
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-5-to-use-bots-or-nots
2 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to buildawhale
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-5-to-use-bots-or-nots
2 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to aksdwi
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-6-to-use-bots-or-nots
2 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to appreciator
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-6-to-use-bots-or-nots
2 days ago
Transfer 2.000 SBD to buildawhale
https://steemit.com/upvote/@acwood/post-6-to-use-bots-or-nots
You can see I used the same bots many different times and these bots where the ones to give me the greatest upvote.
Post #6
3 days ago by acwood (57)
$12.36
10 votes
Post #5
3 days ago by acwood (57)
$12.47
13 votes
Post #4
4 days ago by acwood (57)
$14.35
24 votes
Post #3
4 days ago by acwood (57)
$14.57
36 votes
Post #2
4 days ago by acwood (57)
$11.04
42 votes
Post #1
5 days ago by acwood (57)
$13.86
29 votes
And this is what Steem.supply shows for today, November 28, 2017.
This is after the 25% curation rewards have been taken off.
For those of you that are not familiar with how curation works here are a couple of really good articles you should read.
Curating is not a simple process and there are many factors involved. Who was the first to vote, what there voting power is etc.
I recommend reading these articles for a better description of curating.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@calamus056/curation-rewards-explained-in-great-detail
https://steemkr.com/steemit/@xervantes/how-to-earn-higher-curation-rewards
After the posts have paid out I will be presenting the results here later.
Thanks for watching