RE: Building Mod-Bot: An experimental community moderation tool
Sorry, one more little addition using #penny4thouhgts as an example.
I love your dad's idea! #penny4thoughts is brilliant! And also this fantastic tool unfortunately gives possibilities for abuse. If you look at the hashtag, you see a user who publishes there two or three times a day with cheap posts. On the one hand, he is sure to get the vote of @penny4thoughts. On the other hand, he comments and votes himself with his second account in order to receive the bonus payment. Oh, yes, he's his only commenter.... ;-)
Then there are the users who specifically search for #penny4thoughts articles and leave some inappropriate comment hoping to get a few crumbs of the cake. For me that's shabby.
Conclusion: Bought engagement is very questionable for me, the spirit of Steem as it once was is getting more and more lost through automation.
I agree that penny4thoughts is a groundbreaking and brilliant idea. I think it should be a fundamental concept to Steem that, in an ideal world, would be optionally done by the blockchain itself.
All of steem is "bought engagement" to some extent. Most people are here for author rewards at this point (Lord knows they're not here for the ground breaking user interface or recommendations systems. Two things I'd like to see improved so Steem is less bought engagement). My father just made a different way of rewarding (by redistributing rewards) a specific type of engagement: that being discussion.
I have a few "time problems" regarding my activity on the Steem. But I promise to keep this comment open and answer it later this week!
With the necessary changes to curb exploitation, I thought this suggestion was great too!
This would make many users realize that interacting on this platform is incredibly important and that it can even be a little lucrative. Then "everyone" wouldn't feel "forced" to post articles at all costs, no matter how poor their content. Maybe the latter statement is a little unfair, but that's how it often feels with the "new generation" of Steemit users, unfortunately.
Respect @chriddi for both valuable comments and for sharing your thoughts.
May I ask you what is the idea behind this project? Or direct me to some post about it? I would appreciate it
Cheers Piotr
Thank you... 😊
Remlaps developed the project some time ago (I remember it's been active before the big fork) and I was not able to find its introducing post.
Maybe this dialogue might help you a bit:
https://steemit.com/games/@chriddi/rfw32z