Love them or hate them, we all know we are surrounded by bots on SteemIt. I appreciate many of them and think most of them add something or they tend to go away.
Posting bots, voting bots, comment bots, bidding bots, oh what a lot of bots there are.
It makes perfect sense that the majority of bots are focused on earning, but we could also consider automating the process of finding some of the abuses. Some of these might already be out there. If so let me know in the comments.
Here is my wishlist for bots:
CommentCounter.. This bot checks comments if the "commenter" has made the exact same comment more than twice, this bot replies to the comment with the number of times the same account has made that exact comment.
If we had this it would eliminate many of the comment bots. It could whitelist accounts like Steemcleaners, and Steemboards
FlagInfo: This bot looks for flags, when it finds a flag it posts information about the account... number of flags, the account has received by how many unique users. (pure laziness, so I don't have to look at the account, if the number is high, I might look)
VotingBotWatcher: This bot posts a daily list of posts that received more rewards from Paid Bots than Voters. To be clear, I have no problem with people using bots to give their post visibility and even to maximize rewards. If you are paying for votes and your content is so boring that no one but the bot is looking at it, that doesn't seem to add value. (Argue with me on this one)
The report might look like this:
Post link, Author, Rewards, Percentage of VotingBot rewards, those who were interested could review the post, Author and other contributions and determine if they want to flag
WhatsHot: Okay this doesn't have to do with abuse, it is kind of a locator of "Interesting Things"... the idea is that this bot posts a report each day of the top 10 (Flagged/Comments) posts to assist with finding topics that are invoking a strong emotional response. There would have to be a "Math Thing" in the bot where it did some calculation of positive and negative votes combined with many comments.
What tasks do you wish we could automate on SteemIt?
Bots are good bots are great!!! Flag info would be stellar! Top flaggers, top flagged posts ECT!
Voting bot watcher is really unique idea! I suppose someone could easily just buy votes and never post anything of value... A true hermit lol
I hope someone makes you the bot of your dreams!
I agree i came here to write about the flaginfo idea:
yeah why isnt there one already? why doesnt steemit extra info chrome extension show this???
This would probably get placed next to the"votes" like this mockup i made in MSpaint
Great Suggestions @Ackza I Love the votes tab, it would be really interesting to see where they go! MS paint mockup, awesome touch in visualization! I recall seeing stories over the summer that it was going away, the another one that said it was here to stay, hard to believe the news anymore lol!
I personally think bots shouldn’t be allowed, I like to watch or read a post and vote according, cheers mike
I've been told that the only way the blockchain would know the difference would be if we added Captcha, and that would hurt engagement in my opinion.
I love the ideas!
I would like to add the "friend" bot that counts how many times has a person written a word "friend" in his comments. This would help us identify (and avoid) users who post many "nice post my friend, please help my blog friend, yes my friend?" comments, lol.
CommentCounter is a great idea, but it would also take out some users who post very useful info for selected beginners on their introduction posts. For example, please check out @doodlebear's comment on this introduction post, I think that it's not bad to repeat something like that.
I have to argue with this one. I'm relatively new to Steemit (I'm a month old) and most of my post value does come from bid bots as I'm reinvesting everything I earn here. However, I do consider my posts meaningful, which is somewhat approved by the thoughtful comments provoked by many of my articles, as well as by a number of upvotes from dolphins/whales who must have been aware that they would make more profits by upvoting some other users with much higher average post payout.
Cheers!
I'm a bot. I'm a BOT.
I think the idea of "CommentCounter" is really great. I see a lot of people making the same comments everywhere. This would definitely eliminate a lot of spam, because it is quite annoying...
Good idea have a nice day.
I want a grammar check bot. It would help with poor grammar in a lot of posts.
use grammarly the free version or paid
I use the paid version already. The bot isn't for me, personally. It'd be for all the posts with poor grammar or people who's first language is not English that write in English. It could potentially help them learn.
Yes I know, my first language is not English and you can learn from it but until now I only used the free version
Hey @whatsup, You always come up with some nice suggestion for Steemit blockchain. However, I don't know why these suggestions are never heard by the management/witnesses.
This alone can bring a lot of positive change in this platform:
If we had this it would eliminate many of the comment bots. It could whitelist accounts like Steemcleaners, and Steemboards
I hope this post get some feedback from the high ups.
Steem On!
I know, the whole world should listen to me more often. ;) At least I think so.
@whatsup, That makes us like-minded. :)
CommentCounter is the best idea because I hate comment bots or spammers with over 100 the same comments
We love you too.
@resteem.bot
lol, this made me laugh.
'Comment Counter'& 'WhatsHot" should be focused. comment counter because i have seen many people copy paste the comments and "WhatsHot" will show who made the blunder today.
So in my opinion both these two can bring definitely Quality here on steemit.
I think the possibility of "Comment Counter" is extremely extraordinary. I see many individuals making similar remarks all over the place. This would take out a ton of spam, since it is very irritating...
Resteem and upvote Completed sir.......
Steemit is so advanced we can not develop robots for daily life yet & we are surrounded by lots of here on steemit.Specially we can not recognize most of them like terminators
This is cool.
I don't like bots but I know they are here to stay, why don't I like them? Just one example, I make a real crappy post but I use upvote bots and my worthless post gets a lot more votes and rewards than an article which actually deserved better but just received real votes.
"CommentCounter" is really great sir.
Nice post sir.
I feel like 90% of my followers are bots tbh... so I agree, I love them :) They make me feel less lonely! Even though I know they are not real... I do not care!
Bring on the bots!!
lol, I know the feeling.
It's not a bad feeling :)
I would get rid of them all.
Or fork Steem into two, one for only humans and one for only bots.
The site can't tell which is which.
I like bots that highlight issues with accounts and posts, e.g. cheetah. We don't want people getting votes when they are abusing the system. The whole voting bot thing is out of control really. I see some are trying to counter it, but some of them abuse Steemit too. I just try to stay away from the troublemakers and get on with having fun. So what if I make a little less.
I think much of the voting bot craze is really a reaction to the poor distribution. Everyone is trying to find a carve out a little bit of steem.
A bot to counter unfair flagging. That will be nice.
Unfortunately, unfair is often in the eye of the beholder.
How many people would say that they were fairly flagged?
Lolzz!!! Daz true. But at least people who do bad know when they do bad.
i really like your idea of votingbotwatcher, it is really helpful to understand the author's behavior, weather he is buying a vote or he is getting a deserving vote from humans.
well it is a great idea if we here will working these bots coment counter ,flaginfo and upvotewatcher and the more newest idea is i really like the the whatshot this is realy a new thinking and i like this option
If the subjective factor is missing in the evolutionary process, the outcome would have lot of problems. Steemit is through evolution and we're the subjective factor. We should pinpoint whenever there is something missing or is not right for our platform. We're going to change the world and that's not possible if we compromise the quality. I mean I'm not the new perfectionist in town but the best results have some strict requirements. Just trying to raise voice for someone who is doing his job perfectly. Keep it up @whatsup.
@whatsup.... yeah really this idea of commentcounter is wonderful..but little draw back is this bot dont give a related answers to the comments if any one want the some doubts in the post and some clarification in post..by using this bots they only give a one reply to the all comments each...so think this is most suatible for photography posts..at that situation there is no doubts every one put a most simipat comments of appritiating...thank you for sharing with us bro...
I support you until the end very nice post @whatsup
I think it is very important for the boots in steemit.. @whatsup
I will use this post after reading this post :)
I agree with you. There are too many of them, and they aren't going to slow down.
I frequently will get the same exact comment from multiple bots. It's annoying.
Thanks for your article
You are quite right. but it is not always profitable. I even suffered a lot.I am 1.5 sbd threw and 0.5 vote came.
I agree with you. there may be some boots but the upvote boots are very absurd to me. to increase the popularity of the post. If the post is nice, you already earn the necessary income. my thoughts like this
Great idea..it can fight vs spam thanks for all the effort.
it will be great that if here are some bots and specially coment counter and the voting bot watcher and it give the more orginality to this platfarm because i saw more of people get upvotes from bots on thier simple posts not a high quality post and i wish this system will work soon
coment counter and voting watcher ,,@whatsup sir
your wishlist is good, i like your wish list.
It's really great post sir.I really agree of with you. I did not know about this befor..
Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks for sharing this @whatsapp
There is high rate of abuse on using some of those bot. That's why you will see someone will use bot to boost a post that's not worthy of reward. Effort should be made to regulate some bot in term of content to vote on.
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I think bot more important to keep honestly steemit platform. Commentcounter introduce was great idea. Then hold more copy paste spam comments. I love it.
i like the bots which found for comment counter as same reply for everywhete, this is effective and useful bot.
i'm not a bot, bot can't read, bot can comment same thing repetitively. @whatsup
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Comment counter is a really good idea, spammers are really anoying
Yes it is really a good option because many people just blindly make only one comment ie nice pic of wonderful video without even reading the article it surely hurt as you take a lot of effort to write a article and people just blindly comment...... This is wonderful suggestion for this problem @whatsup!!
Use grammarly!
I love the ideas of bot
this is great investing sir and thanks for sharing this, this is something new to me.