RE: Sneak Peak of @SteemSmarter - My First Project on Steem!
Great work! Very cool to see this coming together. Clearly you and the team have put a lot of work behind this already.
One thing I'd like to see your reports highlight is that tag spam will not be tolerated. People who post on a popular tag in hopes of earning rewards will be flagged and it will hurt their reputation in the long-term. The example you gave includes the witness-category which is interesting because clearly not everyone is a witness or involved in witness discussions so using that category would not be helpful for most people (unless, of course, they had something of value to contribute to that conversation).
I'd be interested in seeing the first set of metrics related to stake-weighted vote as well. So instead of just votes, resteems, and comments, but more importantly weighted against influencers with high Steem Power. There are plenty of resteem bots out there, for example, that are quite meaningless, but a strategic resteem from some accounts can have a really big impact.
I'm looking forward to where this goes!
great points, @lukestokes.
The idea is that using the largest tags doesn't actually give you the best opportunities. In v1 we will average by the # of posts and can definitely have an exclude list of tags to never show (like witness related tags). I wonder how we could capture some of the spamming of tags by users. I'm sure we could pull that data and display it eventually. Ideally people will know the best, most relevant tags to use and where their tribe actually hangs out instead of just posting in "steem" each time (for example).
In v2 we plan to add "fish scales" which will give in depth analysis of who is posting, voting, commenting, etc (not calling out names, but %'s) so that people know what each tag/community consists of. This should show if the resteems/votes/comments are by low-weight bots or actual dolphins or whales, etc.
resteembots are bit of a hit or miss. But on the long run using about 3-4 bots on each post has had positive returns. In fact considering engagement they are more cost effective than voting bots. Sometimes I have gotten about 8 new followers after going to sleep sending SBD to a resteembot. Sometimes I barely get any followers or comments after a resteem.
If you are making good content and use a bunch of resteembot you are bound to get decent results based on my experience.