We use a bot for open mic too. I never asked anyone to create one, but @ausbitbank did so that the community could support each other.


The bot he created just follows my manually curated posts because I upvote so many entries that if I upvoted at 100% voting power my votes would be worth nothing, so it follows my votes and helps to boost them so that others earn more for entering. We don't sell upvotes, we give them away for free when someone enters. But I am still manually listening to and upvoting every valid entry.

It also made it possible for people to delegate Steem Power to the @openmic account which follows my upvotes from the @luzcypher account. People who delegated did not necessarily want to upvote every post I make, so the can just support openmic posts and entries this way. We didn't create to make money for ourselves, but to help others in the community. I don't even upvote myself anymore. I did when I first started but now I want to save my voting power to give to others.

It's not that bots are bad, it's just how you use them. In this case, the community came first and is the main focus. The bot is just a tool that helps us support each other, but not the topic of the community. We hardly ever talk about it because that is not what the community is about.


The community is about music and that is why we are part of it, not because of a bot. Most people don't even know it exists. And that's what we need to do to reach wider audiences to join Steemit. We need to quit talking about Steemit and start blogging about things that interest a wider audience.