someone pointed out to me in anger that berniesanders does the same. Puts like on line or a silly picture. But as much as I may not agree at times with Bernie's methods, what he does for minnows is possibly 10 times more than other whales have done in the past.

They are fun placeholders, if you go kick it with him sort of speak, share a joke, post some fun stuff, key word being fun, he upvotes you.

No need to pay for bots, nothing... he's making people smile by being ridiculous and funny and upvoting people for free... I've seen at this point hundreds of accounts getting 40 cents for a comment.

People like to talk negatively about that, but that's because they've not looked under the hood. There is a big difference.

For example, if you bought 200k in steem and did the same, I would have nothing to say about it.. because you would be giving people some hope, some fun, adding value.

But when an account is posting in solitude, an account that is basically ignored, because it gets no foot traffic sort of speak. yet its upvote farming from alt accounts or something (im not saying this is your case btw, im making an example) then I'm not happy.. I can't be... no one is better because of it.... no exchange of information is happening... none.

Is just soft farming as I've heard someone say once.