This post serves to mark the conclusion of the q-filter experiment and to give a heads up that the voting bot and vote lottery are now down. I appreciate everyone who has contributed to the project through voting and creating. At this time, I am really busy with my new job and other things going on in my life and can no longer give the time that this project deserves.
I found that a lot of manual curation was required to get the results that I wanted and that q-filter still suffered from potential apathetic user issues. The project also came at a cost to myself giving up SBD in order to maintain incentives required to make the system work.
I still hope to continue designing and testing interesting ideas on the Steem blockchain, but for now I am taking a break from active development. The future lies in connecting creators to people who enjoy consuming that content and building meaningful communities around those connections. Q-filter fell short of that goal and most projects on the blockchain don't even attempt to address this issue. But hopefully there will be some progress in this area in the future.
Wrote out a reply and then forgot to post it, so...
It was a good idea but it really needed a bigger userbase to succeed. Sorry to see it go but I can understand. Takes a while to flag all the trash posts :P
BTW, what's the voting bot doing rn? I just got a flag on a 2 week old post from it :D
So apparently even if you take down the site from the public, jobs will still run in the background. I imagine there was a bug somewhere such that the application simply re-found old content. I've turned the jobs off so I'm pretty sure there will not be any surprise flags on old content in the near future.
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