RE: Anonymous, WhiteList Only BidBot. Upvotes & Moderate Flags. Unique Delegator Rewards. 20K SP and Counting
But any improvement is welcomed and should be applauded.
Couldn't agree more!
Firstly, knowing that "non remarkable" content is the content that fuels the bot economy do you think you will be able to receive delegation and maintain it knowing you effectively cut off close to majority of bot customers?
Our automated whitelist counts already 20K members plus all the members who have 65 reputation or higher. Delegators at some point will have to decide between maximised rewards and short-term gains or long-term benefits and fair profits. If our bot gets adopted from the mass, delegators should gain the very same profits or more while also caring about the long-term vision.
Do you think the whales that already delegate to bots will care about the ideals you try to follow, or is your delegation target those that have SP but were looking for a reason that can sooth their conscience before delegating?
We think there must be a change and we are bringing it to the table. The current promotion system is broken and everyone can see that. Whales see it clearly. We don't aim to fix all the possible issues linked to promotion on Steem right now but we pretend to solve the worst ones. Will they get on-board? Good question. Let's see!
And also, if someone did downvote me, couldnt i just look at the downvote amount. See how much id need to pay for that, and do a price and time comparisson with Gina info and your wallet info, thus tracking down the downvoter?
Nope. Bids are merged. One vote may contain both positive bids and negative bids against the target post, making very hard to guess who triggered the downvote. There may be cases where a post is both boosted and flagged. If a flag or an upvote is triggered, it will be based on the amount of the positive and negative bids compared.
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So that is why you pushed this post to 1k with attempts to use services which you disagree with in the first place?
I find it really funny. It's like: "Case, meet point."
No post by a new user should be allowed to get a boost like that. But it is.
I don't find it funny at all as there are people who believe that they are right even they are obviously wrong.
In Hebrew we have a saying: "The owner of capital is the owner of opinion". They can afford to push their belief and spend money advertising it. I am constantly shocked by the duality on steemit: users who rejoice at every 0.10 upvote because they WORK for their content, and want RECOGNITION, and a group of stakeholders throwing around insane sums that 90% of users can't even dream of.
It's enough to read comments in here, There will always be an individual (or small group of people) who decides what is right and will use their all means to push that forward. That does not mean they are right regardless if they have fundings or not. People behind this project will realize sooner or later that this will not change anything and they will become only one of many hated bid.bots.
That's very possible. Alternatively, it will fail because stakeholders with enough SP to make it a significant contender in the (already overcrowded) market will keep investing with older and more profitable bots. This one cannot be as profitable as the competition because of VP spent on flagging. In fact, I am not even sure how it can be profitable at all, but the team behind this experiment probably has better math skills than I.
This experiment is a statement, more than anything. Which is why I am here, reading the comments and eating all the virtual popcorn. Steem is never boring and this is just the latest addition of things to discuss and argue about - a supposedly "ethical" bot. I am curious.
I think that it lost the ethical part when the maximum age of a post was set to 6 days.