RE: What should I blog about?
I was recently discussing these bots on a post by @timcliff
You have every right to use the tags as you wish. However, some bots base their automated welcome messages based on the tag, so using it many times results in those autobots reposting a lot of redundant welcomes to the blockchain. So they punish you for that.
Due to the pressure of witnesses plea to reduce blockchain bloat to keep prices affordable for backup witnesses, many people are on a mission to stop spammers.
The welcomes are generally considered a good thing to make people feel pseudo-welcomed, since welcoming everyone 1 by 1 would involve real people actually having to exert effort to say hello- and few want to do that. In general, most of the introductory posts are firstcomers: so the general consensus is the needs of the bots serving the many outweigh the actual right of the few real humans.
The name of that bot is scary but it has no authority beyond it's rep and stake. Once you have exceeded both, its downvotes cannot effect your rep (unless it calls upon a bigger bully to flag you — which probably will happen if you continue to use the tag.)
The bot is not right. Whom is "out of order" here, technically, is the bot. It is spamming YOU. You did not spam the tag by reintroducing yourself. But it has the best intentions. And it's better for the whole— maybe. Maybe.
I personally only think it should bother phishing accounts and sock accounts, and mass created accounts...but those never use this tag. :-)
Obviously, if you do actually misuse the tagging feature repeatedly (for instance, using the Cat tag to sell a book about sunrises) that would be spam. Unless the book had a picture of cats on it, then the government won't bother you.
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Have a great time on Steemit. And I'm soooooo sorry that this bot has stained your reintroduction.
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the alternative is to promote a new tag called Anniversary or something similar. U really want to share your experiences as someone who has been here for two months or 100 days or whatever. those posts will be much more productive even for new comers. As members here, it's good to talk about our experience every now and then. Introduceyourself is also another way of meeting new people, however I prefer having a tag for bloggers who've used this space for a while. not sure how to go about creating one...or popularising a tag that can be used more...
A tag only remains trending when it has 50 or more (usually) weekly ongoing postings in a rotation — it seems. I will write about the possibility of everyone adopting such a tag. I have a few in mind as well.
Even many popular tags would vanish if there were no current posts for every day within them.
true. but yes we need something other than Introduceyourself. Lot of users use the hate button if u post there..not just bots. The holier than thou people. Moral policing at its worst...lol
Well-intentioned people, many of whom I adore, and protecting their long term investments for everyone's sake — but yes, some very passive aggressive. Lol.
I see what kind of vision they want to a degree, basically facebook that shares all the money equally, like a monetized democratic socialist website. And I'm not judging, but I'm not sure they realize that's not what they signed up for here and that they are effectively imposing and projecting.
I was recently in a dialog about how spam bots go around telling people not to spam, and not to use bots. LOL