FYI discordia has a manual curation element to it, @ausbitbot won't follow votes on comments or posts that match a heap of keywords (eg "test") , and I don't vote or resteem them either ..
Also my potential followup vote(s) are completely independant of the bid price and eventual share in the discordia vote :)
.. Plus you way overpaid for a share in a currently $4.50 vote, you could've paid about 0.1 for similar results :P
Great to know @ausbitbank. I actually learned about these aspects of discordia after starting this up after jumping in and checking them all out (the ones I didn't know about anyway)
Ohh and I overpaid on purpose 😉 This post was mostly just a fun way to share the list. But keep it up
Can you explain the purpose and benefit of bots in general and the pitfalls one should avoid?
I feel like there are good bots and not so good, and terrible; based on what I can tell. Also they are divided into unexpected, free, paid, and maybe some others. They all are some form of gaming the system to get attention which is not necessarily a bad thing, but is hard to frame well.
I'm new to steemit for one month and trying to figure out how to convince friends to come here with all the complexity. I'm an internet researcher and teacher, so I decided to investigate various angles and try to write something up for new people I recruit.
I don’t want my connections to be slammed like I was (and still am). This would be an entry document to tell my friends about the place when I invite them. It will be a free pdf like many others I give out on various topics. I can drive traffic with these freebies and I know I can get people to join here.
My connections are health and weight loss, social media pros, VAs, travelers, and a number of other niches. I have 11M+ connections on many platforms and groups. I want to invite them but I have not yet due to the complexity and time involved here.
I investigated bots a few days ago (a completely new topic to me and I assume my connections too). I put that on hold after one day and will go back. Today, I am on the effort to read and comment on various posts that interest me in any direction so I opened this one up.
I'm not in any chats since I just decided not to try to learn that right now and to stay on Steemit itself as much as possible. I don't think my connections will want to join a bunch of different chats either but I might be wrong since I have never done it.
As I said, I never really heard of this topic before and I think my mom bloggers (etc) will also be caught unawares. I’m looking for any point of view to add to the mix as I try to wrap my head around this.
Most of us are not gamers and do not know about crypto either, so the learning curve is huge. Bots is one of about 15 subject areas I’m looking at for the welcome document I will send out.
This is probably the third post I have found with a round up of bots and I’m glad to see it.
Still swimming down here. Thank you for any help you can offer.
Bots are a really small part of the ecosystem and the least interesting bit of the site imo.
I'd recommend just diving in, networking with other users and leaving relevant comments on content that interests you, and getting hands on experience before attempting to write any sort of guide for others.
There are literally thousands of others guides written on steemit by steemians about every possible aspect of using the site already.
The chat networks are a much faster way to get answers to your questions and network here - you'll find me and 3500+ other users in the PAL discord chat where I'm sure someone can help you out if you have more specific questions you need answers for.