With the the current kerfuffle over curation trails, it seems that this is an awkward time to post this, but oh well. :)
You may know me as the creator of the @cheetah bot. Over the past few months, I have been quietly working on a separate project: building my own voting bot from scratch. Over time, I have developed it into likely one of the most advanced voting bots on Steemit, and I continue to modify and improve both the bot as well as my strategy. I have liscenced out the code to very few other people, whom love the bot. While I do not plan on on open sourcing the code, I decided instead it would be a good idea jump on board with the public vote following systems.
About my Upvotes
Over the past few days, I improved my bot voting strategy. I have quietly, and consistently, become a top ~20 curator by value, despite having no one yet following my votes. You can see, for example, today's curation rewards here, where I am ranked number 16 -- behind very large whales, despite myself not being a large whale. As you go back day by day, you can see me climbing the ranks as I have vastly improved my bot this past week: check out Dec 30 - Jan 1st here.
I split my voting strategy: Firstly, I lightly target posts that are highly probable to be well rewarded, and upvote these before the whales do. Secondly, I target posts that are generally higher quality while being undervalued. While we have some manual curation guilds targeting this, good posts still slip through the cracks. Improving the reward for these types of posts is in my opinion a good thing for the platform!
Following me would balance good curation rewards, while still supporting good content that would otherwise slip through the cracks.
About my Downvotes
I manually downvote fraud, plagiarism, and abuse, as a member of @steemcleaners. I generally do not target posts I consider to be subjective. Keep this in mind when following my votes; you will be donating a small amount of power to clear reward from abuse. Note that despite part of my voting power being used for this, I am still a top curator.
What does @anyx get out of it?
Simply put, by following my votes, I gain a larger curation reward as I lead the trail, slightly improving my own curation reward.
How do I follow votes?
I support streemian, developed by @xeroc, as part of ChainSquad. It's a great service, and created by a trustworthy and professional member of our Steemit community! If you aren't signed up on streemian yet, I highly encourage you to do so: you can alternatively follow votes by @curie or @robinhoodwhale, two awesome manual curation initiatives*.
After signing up on the site and linking your account, simply follow me as a Curator. It's that easy! Now go join my trail! :)
*Note/warning: I use a lot of voting power, enough to maximize rewards. Following multiple curators will drain your voting power quickly.
