[BurnSteem💯]🔥🔥🔥 Netiquette for Steem automatons - posted for discussion purposes
Here's a first draft. In no particular order...
Netiquette: guidelines for well-behaved Steem automatons
- Votes are primarily designed as social operations, not crypto-mining tools. All automated votes must be targeted towards growing value in the attention economy by enhancing the human social experience.
- Automatons must never impersonate humans and, when posting, they must clearly identify themselves as automated agents.
- Automatons must include a 25% beneficiary setting for @null when posting or replying.
- Automatons must include a 25% beneficiary setting for the
parent_authorwhen replying to a post or comment. - Automatons must provide a mechanism for authors to opt out of receiving replies on their own posts or comments.
- Automatons must respect the #norobots tag, and not vote or reply to any posts making use of the tag.
- Automatons must not exceed a maximum daily posting frequency limit of 10 posts or 50 comments per account per day.
- Automatons must set beneficiary rewards to fairly compensate the original authors of any posts or comments that are referenced, summarized, or otherwise used in the creation of automated publications.
- Automatons must cease operations temporarily when network congestion is high, prioritizing human user transactions and social interactions over automated activities.
- Automatons must avoid support for plagiarism or for other automatons that violate any of the preceding behavioral norms.
Thoughts?
Automatons should help people, not replace them. Their job is to perform trivial, reusable functions, not to create content for reading. I think it would be good to prohibit them from generating texts with a storyline, texts about a day spent, told in the first person, etc. But I don't know how to generalize this into a single rule.
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Leave subjective and narrative content to humans.
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I think this is already partly covered in rule #2: identify yourself as a bot and don't impersonate a person.
In watching how Grok is able to generate engagement on Twitter, I don't think we want to be too restrictive on what specific topics or styles the bot can use, though. (however, Grok also violates the "identify as automated" clause 😉. I don't think it should get a pass for that.)
Maybe we modify rule #2 to something like this?
cc: @event-horizon
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Why should there be an expectation for setting beneficiaries to 25% null? Is it just enthusiasm for burning tokens working it's way into an unrelated thing, or is there an automaton-related reason for it?
The ghost of Alan Turing would like to know what counts as an automaton.
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A couple reasons. First, it's a way to signal a desire to support the ecosystem, instead of an attempt at draining it. Second it's a way to compensate for disproportionate consumption of infrastructure like APIs and witness storage. (resource credits should govern the second, but I don't think they do it very well, and I'm assuming that won't change in the foreseeable future.)
Yeah, that's not the only "grey area". Typical for etiquette, I guess. This falls under the "I know it when I see it" rule.😉