RE: Downvote War: are we back to Old Witnesses behavior?
Anyone is free to have their opinion, their likes and dislikes and that is fine, I prefer to be told open and in face if someone does not like something and is going to do something. This is how I do behave in regards to my colleagues at my work, they all know that I am direct and that is why if I am wrong then I am told about that we discuss it and then either agree or maybe still disagree but we know what we think about each other. People need to speak up and not to do something without explanation, this is like to stab the knife into back, like a coward and I hate it.
The last thing we need is a public dispute between the Witnesses or larger accounts.
Agree, that is why Xpilar tried to clarify that direct w. chiller in DM even before downvotes but did not receive any reply, in my opinion, it is also very childish reaction, especially also very recently when Chiller asked users to remove votes from inactive Witnesses, then he approached Xpilar and Xpilar asked all of us WOX users to do so and we all did.
I don't know how much (or little) communication took place between the two, and I don't want to speculate.
What I am missing is a statement from @xpilar.witness resp. @xpilar. I just checked both accounts, no post, no comment on the matter. Why is he silent? Maybe he's offline over the weekend, would be ok, just now of all times a statement from him would be very helpful.
I don't understand why he didn't inform the community before launching the bot. Many users thought the comments were genuine and written by him. So, unfortunately, I see this as a false pretence.
It's all a shame, because I assume that he didn't deliberately want to deceive anyone. Probably all well-intentioned, but unfortunately, sorry, badly done.
In any case, I really hope he stays with us, from a programming point of view it was an outstanding achievement.
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@xpilar/the-day-that-became-a-nightmare-due-to-the-use-of-ai-to-comment-on-posts-to-the-users-in-steem
That's good, thank you!
That is incorrect information and it's exactly the other way around actually. I contacted him multiple times, got no response, and then started downvoting. The proof is even to find here in between comments...
Yes, but the person especially 70 y.o. person can not be 24 hours online. I usually receive a message within 24 hours and often I can not answer my DM even for couple of days. You should have give at least these 24 hours for person to come back. Because we all have other commitments, like family, children, grandchildren and also you do not know if he was unwell
Come on, kids, let's get over this. Remove the AI comments and I will remove my downvotes.
Wie ist das eigentlich mit der Reputation - ist die nach Rücknahme der DVotes dann wieder (halbwegs) wie vorher?
Ja, Reputation wird auch beeinflusst, wenn man Votes entfernt ;)
No the reputation will not be restore just by removing Downvotes, the account needs to build up reputation once again by posting and getting Upvotes like normally it requires. I am writing in English, as seems our Deutsch language comments are ignored.
Das hab ich mich gestern auch gefragt... Irgendwie glaube ich nicht...
You are right it will not
I am telling you, he is offline now and not able to answer, give time or are you in a hurry?