The rare case of @isotonic or the creation of a Bid-based Voting Bot as a tool for Empowering or Funding a Steemit Initiative
As you may know, besides being a clearly fanatic of the cryptoworld, I am also an active addicted Runner... But let me explain you a little bit more about my start as a minnow here in steemit
As a steemit user, I enrolled in the platform on June last year.
As any other minnow does, I have tried to grew up posting about many aspects of my life.
As you can imagine, one of the main topics I wrote about were posts and articles regarding Running, since it is one of my favorite activities in life.
Actually, one of the first tags I checked when I first landed in steemit was the #running tag and, of course, one of my very first post was about that topic.
Despite I think I managed to succeed in the platform, I found terribly difficult to find steemians with the same preferences and I spent a lot of time searching Runners to follow in the platform and, as a consequence, I got very few Runners as followers as well.
One amazing initiative I found and on which I am fully committed is the RUNCOIN initiative from @dragosroua . If I am not wrong, Mr. Dragos is working in its evolution and he knows pretty well how enthusiastic I am with this project, which I am supporting it 100%.
Nevertheless, since the beginning , I have been thinking about how to promote/incentivize the Running Community and, of course, how to motivate Runners to keep posting about this amazing activity .
Fruit of all this time spent thinking on this topic is the creation of the @runningproject initiative a few weeks ago, which I invite you to follow if you are curious about, but that essentially and in short, it is a Running Post promoter on which anyone can become an approved member if demonstrates good quality posts on the Running topic, being the enrollement fee a tiny (I guess) transfer of 1 SBD or 1 STEEM...
In change, @runningproject is, between other benefits, automatically upvoting, resteeming and promoting those posts of the "approved" member... there are more benefits which implies selection of best Running posts of the week, contest, training proposals and the like ...
If you read till here maybe you are a little puzzled trying to understand the meaning of the this post title, "The rare case of @isotonic...bla, bla, bla....".
Sorry for the long introduction but thought was worthy in order to understand it...
So, as I said @runningproject was created, new members are getting enrolled daily, the account is voting all of them, donations are increasing as well, the different promotion posts and contest placed are going pretty well and the STEEM POWER is growing constantly but...
Even the enrollement fee is "tiny", the number of members is increasing, some of them voting more frequently than others, so the @runningproject is voting more and more every time, benefiting more members as well but also losing Voting Power (VP).... ==> So, I decided to set the Voting Weight (VW) of the @runningproject to the 50% in order don't run out the VP...
That was a good decision I guess, and as a result, that measure is keeping @runningproject within a voting "safe" zone, for the moment...Remains the problem of the expected growing of the initiative... If the initiative is a success as I consider it has been till now, the number of members will increase constantly and so I will have to take a decision... paining decision I would say, because it would imply the increase of the "enrollment" fee or so... frankly would not like to reach this point...
Suddenly, a couple of weeks ago, one steemian which I personally introduced in Steemit a few months ago and which I consider him as my fifth brother (we grew up together and, in some sense we are brothers, I love you dude :-)), asked me to help him in the setting-up of a new Bid-based Voting Bot...
Since, as I said , he is my "brother", I spent time using and install some GITHUB open source linux libraries/programs etc... which allow you to configure a sort of bot...
That is how I put me in contact with @yabappmatt , Steem Witness / Developer / Creator of SteemBotTracker.com and the Post Promoter content promotion software...
After ending the project of my "brother's" bot, I used the knowledge acquired to develop another one.
Yeah, another Bidding-Based Voting Bot, @isotonic....But with a small but important difference:
@isotonic has been created as a tool to reinforce the @runningproject initiative and so, it is the @runningproject account who will be benefited from the earnings of the bot after having payed the delegators.
Essentially, the SBD or STEEM transfered by @isotonic to @runningproject will feed and increase @runningproject ' s SP
Honestly, I did not find any other bot offering the same as @isotonic does, which, at the same time is promoting minnows and so, it is dedicating a big part of its earnings to reinforce another good cause or initiative as @runningproject .
So, let me tell that seems that @isotonic is the first Bid-based Voting Bot created, in part, to help or fund another Steemit Community!
Long life to @isotonic and the @runningproject initiative!!!
I would like to thank all the members and supporters of @runningproject and this time also in particular to @yabapmatt
who has aided me a lot in many technical aspects , always available and willing to help and give advise.
Upvoted and resteemed. It is an easy decision, a no brainer, to do so :)
BTW, could you please consider sharing bot's source code on github? I would love to benefit from your knowledge in setting up this bot.
I wanted to do something similar for a long time now but I never took time to learn it.
I am talking about supporting and keeping together the community. This one -> @teamslovenia.
I want to:
This is completely doable with your bot, isn't it?
Merci :)
Bufff, not really... @runningproject is not an automatic bot per se...
For the time being I am using steemvoter to vote each one of the members...The weekly contests and resteeming processes I'm doing manually for the time being but I'm searching the way to make it automatically...if you refer to @isotonic type bot I can give you more info...
Autosteem is an app that may cover your needs, have a look there... did you check it?
Thanks for the direction I should look into. It is on the list :) OK, I will check it out.
What about the environment? Local Ubuntu VM or something 'on the cloud'?
It depends, steemvoter works alone and autosteem just need your browser activated
Have a look:
https://autosteem.learnthis.ca/#!/filters
If you want to do something like @isotonic you would need linux, ubuntu for instance... and some knowledge of linux may help...
Remember that you can install linux on windows as well...
I am at Discord if you need me ;-)...
I was a fulltime linux sysadmin years ago :) I have the knowledge. All I need is some time and a push into the right direction. Thanks again for your help!
Look forward to seeing the projects that emerge! @isotonic
Great project! Resteemed for visibility.
Good luck with the whole project, encouraging people to work out is always a good thing.
Upvoted ☝ Have a great day!
Cool! Do you mind if I use your info for my post today, then I'll promote the bot as well instead of doing a running post?
Also FYI please ensure your bot doesn't allow upvotes on posts that are older than 3,5 days, otherwise they could awaken the Cat! Also as you're already in touch with @yabapmatt, he's the person behind steembottracker.com get him to add the bot there. It will widen it's publicity.
Dear friend, as I wrote, I am already in contact with him 😉
Use anything btw if it is good for @runningproject
Ok, I just finished it and it's up now: https://steemit.com/running/@wolfje/isotonic-the-new-running-bot
Very good, I wasn't sure if you knew about those things I learnt the hard way.
You got a 100.00% upvote as a Recovery Shot from @isotonic , currently working as a testing trial, courtesy of @toofasteddie!
*Image from pngtree.com
@isotonic is the Bid Bot of the @runningproject community.
Earnings obtained by this bot, after paying to the delegators, are fully used to increase the SP of the @runningproject from which all affiliated members are benefited.
Check @runningproject posts in order to know further about.
The real purpose isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.
Unknown Runner
*Resteemed by @runningproject
Remember that you can always use @isotonic to get recovered yourself after writing your post and help @runningproject at the same time.
You got a 23.08% upvote from @redlambo courtesy of @toofasteddie!