Many of you know that there is an upvote tool (bot) that can help boost your payout on your posts called MinnowBooster. This can be helpful for minnows trying to gain exposure and be seen on the platform. I have used this tool in the past to do just that.
Recently I turned the tables. I wanted to help minnows boost their posts and see how a voting bot could help me if I sold my voting power to MinnowBooster.
Last Sunday (March 11), I signed up to sell my voting power to MinnowBooster and here are the results:
My SP was around 2300 + or -
I set up my vote selling to stop when my voting power reached 50%. This way, I would still be able to cast a vote for a few of the steemians I follow. Within 24 hours my voting power was at 50%. This wasn't a surprise as it is clearly evident that a lot of users make use of this service.
On Tuesday the 13th, I raised the threshold to 60% giving me a little more voting power while still being able to support the minnows making use of the service.
I continued at 60% until Friday the 16th when I raised the threshold to 70%. My reasoning for slowly stepping back up to a higher level of voting power for me was to ensure once I completed my trial of how this worked I would also have most of my voting power back for my followers.
So today is Sunday the 18th. After one week of vote selling here is what I have made based on my SP while reducing how much of my vote power was available for the bot:
Now, this may not seem like a lot but one also must consider that my voting power was used to place upvotes for 157 posts that I otherwise would not have voted on. This results in an additional sum for curation. Now I haven't gone through and added up the results for this as of yet, but I think a reasonable guesstimate would be in the neighborhood of and additional 1-2 SD (I will go through and add it up to provide an accurate number in a follow up post), making my total for the week around 10 SD.
So, if you have a reasonable amount of SP can you make money selling your vote to MinnowBooster?
Absolutely.
Will you make as much as you would if you're writing your own posts every day and have a decent following of regular readers?
I think that depends on a lot of factors.
Overall I was satisfied with using the service in this way. As a matter of fact I have left my vote selling turned on at 80% so that when I am not as active minnows can be helped and I can make a few SD.
A lot of users have a number of issues regarding voting bots. I get this, and most of the reasoning I have read about on both sides (for and against) makes sense so you will have to decide for yourself if this is something you want to participate in.
If you think you might want to, here is a LINK . Good luck!