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RE: Update: Steem-Exif-Spider-bot New Voting and Comments Queues
Pretty neat, but your @salty-mcgriddles account is being very spammy. Maybe it could be activated only by a specific trigger in posts or comments.
Not my account. It's my daughter's. She's running the bot to play with it. I don't think it'll stay running much longer. She'll probably turn it off when we get back from our soccer game.
Yeah. That's a good idea.
I think it supposed to also leave an upvote which would make people less annoyed with the spam.
Spam is not the only issue here either. The other issue is privacy.
Posting the EXIF info without someone opting in to it can also compromise the identity of the account posting. Someone may accidentally post a photo without the EXIF scrubbed, but realize it and quietly make a change. With a bot running rampant posting EXIF data whether anyone likes it or not, someone's personal data may be made a whole lot more obvious.
Ok, to be clear, exif information is already public once you post the photo (see http://exif-viewer.com/). The point of this bot is convenience so readers and posters can get information that's already available. But yeah, spam is bad. The point is not to spam. It's a bot of convenience. If people don't find it useful, then there's no point to it.
Visible EXIF data is public if a poster chooses to publish it in their post - and technically they have published it by posting an image - so anyone with half a brain can view the data if they want to - it's not up to you to spam it in their comments. There is nothing convenient about any of this. Your script is horrendous - kill it and DO NOT EXECUTE IT AGAIN.
Your campaign against my daughter is despicable. You should be ashamed. Odds are, this will be refined. It will be run again. It'll probably be run on opt-in basis, so people that don't know about it or don't want to use it don't have to.
You're just one no in a sea of YES.
IT IS NOT USEFUL - YOU ARE PULLING META DATA FROM EVERY IMAGE YOU SCRAPE - WHETHER IT BE A SCREENSHOT, GRAPHIC ART, SLIDE SCANS ETC. AND YOU ARE POSTING THIS DATA IN THE COMMENTS OF POSTS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PHOTOGRAPHY - AT ALL
You say it's not useful and then you explain exactly why it is useful. Which is it? I'm not posting any data in comments. I can't be held responsible for what users do with this bot.
Also, it's checking the #photography tag. If it's picking up images that are not #photography, then that's tag abuse. It's not the bot's fault.