This post a bit different from the usual topics I share. The following information contains some cost effective means to earn from the platform with as little effort as possible. No, this does not contain any advocacy for low effort posting and being complacent for the generosity of curation trails.
Disclaimer: I’m not a financial adviser and the things I say here are methods that worked well for me. If you invest your time and money doing what I also do, do it at your own risk. I’m also not paid to introduce the platforms going to be mentioned here.
I think the above suffices for an intro because we all know that’s not what you came here to read about.
Gambling with 
I gamble a lot. I gamble so much that while I’m doing something else, my account is set to gamble automatically on the moonsteem platform. Moonsteem’s bot account automatically upvotes at 100% any gambler’s post that has place a cumulative bet of 1 steem every 2.5hours. It has a low number of players currently and ranging from 10-25 players for the past few weeks now.
Given that I can spend several hours betting automatically, reaching a cumulative sum of 1 Steem isn’t that hard. Because there are too few players playing the game, my chances of winning the raffle almost always certain. Moonsteem only upvotes recent posts and not comments. You can get to know more about the platform from their bot comments on my previous posts.
Their game token are called “Steemies”. A single token is equivalent to 0.001 Steem. This means that gambling 1 Steem is equivalent to 1000 Steemies. It took me days and a lot of losses to get my workable formula for gambling on the platform right. I kept an excel sheet calculating the amount to bet and how much to risk. I still modify the formulas based on whatever findings.
I’m now confident that I can at least sleep while my laptop is doing some gambling spree. I earn about 3-4 Steem per day while I’m working on something else on the background. The main benefit I’m getting is through that upvote lottery the platform features. This means even when I don’t receive any comments from my posts, it’s almost always guaranteed that the platform’s bot would give my posts some love.
Save up to buy more SBI shares.
If you’re here on the blockchain investing in the long term, it’s not a bad idea to stock up some shares for yourself. Steembasicincome, in my opinion, it is a better alternative than paying for bid bots or upvote subscriptions. Most programs would have your subscriptions for a limited time only. On the other hand, SBI shares are permanent (at the time of this writing), this means you don’t have to mind trying to renew your upvote subscription monthly.
I currently have 132 units courtesy of contests, friends, and my own expenses. Each share is equivalent to 1 steem given to the program. Hypothetically, if I were to choose between using that amount to power up or invest in SBI, I’d go for the latter. 132 Steem Power would give me 0.002? or somewhere near that value. Buying some SBI shares would give me 0.115 worth of upvote (at the time of this writing).
I don’t have to worry about timing my bids on a bid bot to maximize some returns. I don’t have to think about monthly subscriptions that expire. And I can be generous enough to share because purchasing some shares means I could share the equivalent number of units to another person on the blockchain. Even if you don’t regularly post, steembasicincome can upvote your comments.
Delegating to 
I delegated around 20 SP to it and it upvotes my content. 20 SP on a self upvote won’t do anything but if I had it pooled to that bot, it gives me more return than what my delegation is worth. YOu can find out more about this bot here
Engaging with other people on the blockchain is also a sound advice. But for people who have less time to be active on the blockchain and want to gain more with the least effort, you might want to try the above suggestions.
Oh yeah, sharing drugwars posts aren’t really giving you worthwhile rewards. Those posts just contribute to clutter on the blockchain and takes a big cut from the user sharing. It also ruins your artistic space.
Last thing, you’ll earn more if you don’t mind whatever the amount of pay out your post gets. Just keep doing what you want to do and enjoy it. This blockchain is a social game. There’s no real money in it. Any old timer here knows that payout value does not equate to quality the blockchain needs. We need people that don’t treat this blockchain like their financial assistance program or lifeline.
