The whole community owes you a debt of gratitude. Also, I find the phishing attempts on my phone and computer these days to be so clever that I feel that Steemit would be a great place for people to collect screenshots and other information/stories (via looking at page source code, for example) that would help to massively raise the level of public education towards an aggressive response to those phishing attempts.
A new site running off the block chain might be a good place to collect all this evidence (screen shots and page source code, etc.) and keep it on display for everyone to learn.
Can you help me on the following two points?
Even though I have not up-voted anyone for several days, the slider bar that appears when try to up-vote shows my “influence” at 26%, even though I have a few hundred dollars locked away in Steam Power coins. Can you give me a URL where I can go to learn how to distribute my up-votes so that I keep control over the rate at which that slider bar approaches 0%?
Second, in what language are the Steemit bots being coded, and where can I go (URLs) to learn the syntax rules and see some examples of bots code? I am an experienced programmer.
Thanks in advance.
Honestly, I'm already working on too many projects and don't have free time for a new one.
Depends on you own skills. There are many libraries for different languages.
Hello, and thanks for your prompt response. Happily, I found several relevant and helpful webpages. In the process of reviewing text on some of them, I discovered that I need to learn Python.
This will be a piece of cake for me, since I already do a lot of work in R. I know they are quite different but the literature suggests that many scientists (I am one) are jumping easily between R and Python. Also, in glancing at a few pieces of Python code just now, it brought BASIC back to mind. So, I think that by some time next week I will have mastered Python enough to start working on a Steem bot. Good luck with your projects!