These past few days I have been getting questions about the upvote bots in PALnet. Sometimes they don't both work properly, thinking a user has used them before their 12 hour interval is up, adding more cooldown time. This is being worked on. The primary concern though seems to be that the earnings from these votes have dropped. This is due to a couple of reasons:
The price of steem/SBD has tanked and so will the $ value of the votes
More members are deciding to forgo using Streemian (which goes towards powering the bots) in favour of delegating to the various MSP bots - thereby supporting the community. msp-creativebot centerlink minnowsupport msp-lovebot msp-shanehug @muxxybot and nettybot. Most of these auto upvote your posts without you having to invoke the $upvote command.
As nice as upvotes are however, if this is the only reason you join #minnowsupport then you are not fully benefitting from the community. We encourage you to engage in chat and get to know your fellow members. Share what projects you are working on, get advice from your peers. Some will follow you and are a potential future voter/resteemer.
We have a channel dedicated to helping you write fiction, run by the wonderful @rhondak - a published author and critic - assisted by the incredible @carolkean - novelist / book reviewer for Perihelion Science Fiction. We have another channel called msp-workshop run by the brilliant @r0nd0n - it's aim is to help you with post formatting issues to get your posts in tip top shape.
General is always full of the most helpful bunch of people you could hope to meet. Get to know them, engage and network with them. THEY are the true strength of the community and their support and friendship is worth more than any upvotes the bots will give you.
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