RE: Introducing STEEMLOOKUP Filtering Tool
BTW, it is the unfortunate truth that if you just set the upper payout filter to say $10 and then sort by a criteria like comments you are already going to be getting a much better result set in most tags than the actual trending posting :( And this is actually a reasonable proxy for no bidbots / paid votes ATM.
That's not always the case. There are still many of us veterans still holding on, our payouts can be slightly higher than that, and many of us still get slammed with comments; we're not using paid votes.
New and existing members often get rewarded for commenting, if they can find us. That helps them grow.
The people seeing success on apps like dtube also see a higher reward. They could use the views as well.
Getting free visibility back is a game changer though, for everyone. From the bottom, to the top, and everyone in between; there is a huge demand for free visibility. Combine that with your preferred language and these people from all over the world can start building each other up instead of wasting their votes on overly inflated trending and hot posts. It gives everyone that proverbial ladder back and they can start climbing again, free of charge, like it used to be when the place was working incredibly well for those who produced the good stuff that people like according to their own tastes. Manual curators benefit immensely as well if they don't have to share those rewards with bots and it brings some of the value and reward back to curating; as well as making it one hell of a lot easier to find stuff.
Damn fine work here though. Good job. If I see that feature in the future, I'd gladly donate to the cause.
Thank you for your comment.
Feature you are referring to is in our plans, and will be available soon. You will be able to exclude authors upvoted by specific users in certain time period.
For example: Exclude all authors upvoted by nonameslefttouse in last 12 days.
Fair enough.
which will of course allow you to specify the known vote sellers and exclude authors who have votes from them :) You can save search settings and I believe (but didn't go back to the channel to confirm this) that a feature in the works is ability to share saved searches or have some presets basically, one of which could be the current list of vote sellers loaded in to the exclude votes from filter once that is active.
Even adding an icon much like we'd see on Youtube, Google, Facebook, everywhere else that highlights the fact the content is an ad/promotion/paid programming after the use of bots is detected would be a good step. Content consumers like to be informed. Many feel mislead after signing up, viewing trending, selecting a post, thinking that post is there because it's popular; only to find out the content wasn't popular, it was just placed there by the author hoping to cash in on misdirection and the ignorance of the new member. People leave feeling like they were duped. That makes the rest of the honest content look shady as well, which is unfortunate.
Yeah I have been saying this exact same thing for a while now. Agree with you 100% on this point. @transparencybot is a good step in the right direction but you only even see that if you look in the comments.