RE: Small fish in the Steem sea
Whilst there is any kind of auto voting, there will be garbage.
Fact. For the money hungry, who cares if it's garbage, it's efficient and profitable. Rather than genuine social interaction, this system seeks to automate the process with a machine. I wouldn’t say auto upvoting is inherently bad - if someone needs a little artificial boost to get started, that’s their choice. I mean, if they want to begin as close to the finish line as possible, that’s not really my business - as long as the content is good.
No matter how good a system is, people always find ways to screw it. Just like in the real world, good and bad people coexist. While it might be convenient to eliminate the bad, it wouldn’t be as meaningful - after all, without the bad, how would you recognize the good (those who resist)?
I think it’s important just to be curious.
I do a bit of sleuthing now and then, but not too often - what I find usually ends up being more disappointing than interesting. I haven't gone that far yet as you can probably see I've just been baptized whatever the hell that means 😆 ... So I have just heard about this bidbot upvu and why steemit has become a pay to win system...
They’re not always in control of the account but when the personality comes out, it’s so nice to see.
I have nothing against them, I know a few who are nice and sensible. I just wish they would engage a little rather than just upvote.
Oh, I mean all auto-voting. Not just the use of bidbots but curation trails and everything else. I've seen some extremely interesting authors who were so good when they signed up. Then they became moderator of a community and with that, some auto-votes from a curation trail. It went from extremely interesting to 3 or 4 photos of their food every day. Whilst this user wasn't buying votes, she'd sold her soul.
When we were in a curation team (steemcurator0x), I created @curator-helper which would scan for active posts with particular tags, sorted by my algorithm and that hadn't already been voted for by one of the steemcurator accounts. I don't run it very often but it's a good way to find new content that I might be interested in. I've just run it so take a look and see if there's anything you like 🙂
They do every now and again and it's so nice. But then it's as though somebody in Beijing saw what they were doing and makes them stop! And then just like that, they're gone again.
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That's really unfortunate...
I would - as long as there are no cricket-related posts 😄Joking, it seemed like a good filter and it listed a user I’m already keeping an eye on 👍
Oh, now I understand. Hm...
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Oh, good thinking with the #cricket tag - I don’t think I’ve added that one yet 😉
I make sure that I block a lot of accounts across everything that I do! I think the my interface blocks about 60% of content now. Which still isn’t enough 😆
60%! Damn, this place is so messed up 🤣
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I’ll have to run my code and find out. I filter out bot users, krsuccess, people I’ve blacklisted and some entire communities. I should probably filter out #thediarygame too.
I want to filter out my feed too, it's always flooded with resteemed posts (5-10) from a single user. It's really annoying😐
Good thinking 😉
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Well, if you're looking at it through your Friends Feed (https://steemit.com/@henryclive/feed), I introduced the [Hide Resteems[(https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@the-gorilla/proposal-86-change-log-hide-resteems) functionality a few months ago which solves that problem 🙂
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Oh, great work! I did notice the hide resteem function but I hadn't used that yet since I don't want to hide resteemed posts from a particular user who actually resteems quality content.
Although I could unfollow the user who resteems 5–10 posts a day, I don't want to - because I like her own posts. So my solution has been to rarely check my feed and go directly to the community or user's page...
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