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RE: The Daily Coverup - 4/12/18 - Transparency Under Attack.
Suggestions: Keep doing what you are doing, but "purify" it: (1) Remove ALL spammy parts. (2) Put all explanations onto a web page, and just provide a link to that page. ("Click HERE for more information.") (3) Put all detail for the particular post onto another web page that is just for that post. (Requires some software development.) (4) Get your comment down to a single line that just says something like, "This post received $162.52 USD in upvotes from bidbots. For a breakdown by bot, click HERE. For more general information click HERE.".
Thank you very much for the support you have shown these last couple of days.
I changed the message this morning.
I want to leave the enumerations in place, authors would probably NOT like a link that pulls the viewer from their post and of course it also causes obfuscation of the full list.
To have a link for each bot or the entire list, would require I setup a server outside of Steemit to handle the link requests and parsing, so it is just not programmatically possible at this time.
Let me know what you think of the new message, I believe it is much more palatable.
https://steemit.com/recipe/@transparencybot/re-yum-roasted-seafood-with-emon-and-herbs--bidbot
I've dealt with this particular "food blogger" - don't expect the post will be up much longer.....
Just create your own post! If this is the content you want to share with the community... by all means... do it. It’s always gonna be spammy if you are doing it in other people’s posts. Do a daily report... but stay off others pages with this. I don’t care if content is good or bad. This is just as bad as the spam for bid bots. I’m not against you or what you are doing. I am against the way it is done. Post your own stuff let people read it if they want to!
Much better. The last two paragraphs are superfluous. I suggest this, which aggressively cuts away the fat, leaving ONLY the meat. Round to the nearest dollar. Don't report bots rounded to 0. I strongly advocate that you envision a single line post such as:
This post has received $128 USD votes from the following bidbots: $43 upme; $41 buildawhale; $36 promobot; $8 postpromoter.
Thanks again for the feedback.
The "No judgement" line has proven to be required as MOST of the feedback I have received has been that the bot is "judging" their post. After adding this statement, I received very little "judegment" feedback.
The single line and rounding has merit. Thanks.
I think that your idea is hilarious and is going to be very effective. You get my vote for "most valuable player" in this game against those who are gaming this system. I'm a newbie here, but I'm also a trained economist and am 63 years old. "Proof of mind" is the heart of steemit; curation must remain 100% human to be effective.
Hilarious is certainly not the reaction I was aiming for :)
Man you said it!
BTW: You've only got me in age by less than moons than you might think.
Again, the community support is truly humbling ... Thank you all.
Your bot posts are hilarious because I suspect that most, if not all, of the people who use autovote bots know that they are gaming the system, selfishly harming the platform. For such people, your bot's posts are like flinging open the bathroom door intentionally on someone who is masturbating at a party. So embarrasing for the victim. So funny for everyone else!
Indeed!
In my world view, the credit for brilliance such as yours goes to God, not to you. But you get credit for saying YES to the inspiration.
Every chance you get, remind people that "proof of mind" is the heart of steemit and that curation must remain 100% human.
We have perhaps well meaning people like @heart-to-heart here speaking the idea that "everyone does it so it can't be wrong", where "it" in her case refers to using a bot to automatically upvote every post by anyone on a person's list of supported people. I've told her that if everyone did that, curation would become a popularity contest and would be driven by cliques that would devolve further into one single oppressive mob, eventually driving all minority thinkers off of the platform.
Believe me, I share your world view. Everything I do, I attempt to do for our Lord. I pray that my motives are pure.
Agreed!
I have stated repeatedly, when someone remarks, "I only use them so my post can be seen."
with,
If everyone pays bidbots to be seen; then eventually, NO posts will be seen, only paid for.
Blessings and thanks for the common sense outlook.
@bycoleman available record shows that you once used bid bots massively to promote your posts and boost your reputation. Why the sudden U turn overnight? Were you also one of those who wanted to destroy this platform by buying votes insanely?
I will advise you look for better innovations on Steemit than have a spammer you call Transparency bot.
Regards