OCDB Announcement - A Whitelisted Non-Profit Bid Bot

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Introduction

We at the OCD curation project have for a long time been striving to look for underrated authors who write quality content, a task that is not easy because a lot of new authors that come to the platform and write have a hard time connecting with other users and receiving visibility. We are all also aware of curation not being as incentivized as posting and that's why we used posting rewards to reward our curators for the hard work they go through finding these authors.

With the linear curve the platform was introduced to bid bots as a way of advertising their content to the readers, although we over time came to the acceptance of these services, we didn't appreciate the middleman fees the owners were taking on a blockchain that is supposed to eliminate middlemen. Although the OCD bot (OCDB) won't be targeted to authors wanting to buy as much visibility as possible, we want to improve on the fee aspect and we think that competition in that scene will be healthy for the platform.

What will OCDB offer to delegators

By delegating to @ocdb you will be assured that all buys in limited amounts will go toward authors who have already proven themselves to write quality, original content for the Steem platform. The whitelist consists of over 2700 handpicked authors and will be growing organically through the usual @ocd curation activity.

The profit margin that went to the owners of the bid bots, such as curation rewards and part of the buys (SBD) will now instead go partly to the whitelisted buyers. There will be supervision of all posts that purchase votes from the curation team and community, with abuse facing consequences.

OCDB is completely non-profit!

You can delegate to us through the website by logging in with Steemconnect, where you can also choose if you wish to donate a percentage of your curation rewards or purchases or just directly delegate to the account @ocdb and you will receive all purchases daily and curation rewards on a weekly basis.

As a delegator you will be able to see your returns in real time at https://thegoodwhales.io/delegators.html

What will OCDB offer to buyers

If you have been curated by @ocd before this means you're already in the whitelist, which you can check on the same website here (click ctrl-f).

Being in the whitelist allows you to purchase a vote for max 2.5 sbd (currently) and get a guaranteed return of 150% minus curation (~25%).

Rules for buyers

This will follow the rules of why we curated you in the first place through @ocd. You can only purchase votes for original content that you have created.

Abuse will be warned at first, the vote will be removed and you will receive your amount of SBD back. The second time your vote will be removed and you will also be removed from the whitelist and not be welcomed back.

How the bot operates

The bot has a queue system which can also be found on our website here.

It will vote once every 100%, the max bids will increase or decrease depending on demand and delegation. The more demand there is the smaller the buy amount for each author, the more delegation the higher buy amount for each author. Currently each unique author can buy a vote once every 24h. This is something that will be constantly adjusted over time.

As you can see by the queue right now, @ocdb is already very popular even in its testing phase.

Conclusion

This bid bot will go hand in hand with our usual curation initiative. The only way to get onto the whitelist will be by being curated by @ocd for providing quality and original content to the platform.

This bot is created to help with distribution of stake for authors that truly write quality content. OCD has for over a year spent a lot of time helping distribute stake to deserving authors, OCDB will reinforce that and make this platform stronger for both holders of Steem Power and their Return of Investment as well as aid distribution that increases DPoS stablility.

Future additions

Incentivize quality content even more by curating and increasing ROI of posts that have bought @ocdb votes daily.

Bear in mind that this bot is still in beta and if issues occur you are welcomed to report them to us in our discord. Having said that;

The OCD Discord channel is going public and everyone is welcome to join!

We are taking our Discord channel public and allowing everyone to join, there you can ask questions from our curators and myself about @ocd curation, about @ocdb and about @ocd account creations as well. More info on the latter and more news from @ocd and small changes in how it will continue to operate in another post.

Join the Discord Server by clicking this link

If you appreciate what OCD has done in the past and will continue to do for the Steem blockchain in the future, consider voting for our witness @ocd-witness currently ranked #51 here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses or by approving us through this Steemconnect link

Thank you for reading!

If you have any questions feel free to ask them here or on our Discord server! :)

OCDB is a fork from the bid bot of @yabapmatt, credit goes to him! The fork was updated and is maintained by @jga, thank you for the great work!

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Nice new website, Acid. I hope to get on that whitelist one day :D
This post is featured on today's daily news (in Chinese :D)


I do not think there will be problems! You're a great one!

love what you all do, voted for you as witness. you were some of the early supports of @mountainjewel and we're forever grateful. happy you @acidyo and @anomadsoul are here as well as all of your wonderful curators! you make this platform better and i'm happy to hear you're opening up the community discord :) i've joined!

yay, looks like i am still in your system! i was whitelisted and just delegated. i love your program and all you do for this platfrom acidyo ... i'm a bit biased and love you more than another curation team. just sayin. :) plus it helps that while i was not getting recognized by many OCD did!

much love,
eagle spirit

Will you guys offer buying votes with Steem? I don't really hold liquid SBD often...but I guess it's not hard to transfer.

Also, what about using your bot with other bots? Will you ban users that do that?

What about curation projects? Will they refuse to curate users that buy votes from you, or even reverse their votes? I think SteemSTEM does this with some bidbots.

Almost forgot! Congratulations on launching your bot service!

You can bid both with Steem or SBD.

Good content is good content if there is no abuse I don't see why other curation projects would stop supporting good users and think they are still undervalued for their work.

What about curation projects? Will they refuse to curate users that buy votes from you, or even reverse their votes? I think SteemSTEM does this with some bidbots.

I hope they will consider not doing so as we will keep an eye on the posts that get "boosted". We'll see if that causes any issues in the future.

I hope so too.

I think your project is a lot better than standard bid bots. For that reason, I hope it grows a lot bigger.

Just today I got really annoyed that a project that I actually liked used bid bots to upvote their announcement to trending.

While I am not necessarily opposed to using bidbots on a post that deserves a high payout, or should be in trending, the problem lies in the fact that they are supporting services that don't give a shit. They don't review the posts that will get upvotes, or even reverse upvotes on utter crap. I would much prefer paid curation.

Perhaps in the future we will look back on this as a step forward towards more moral bid bot services.

It is one of the best project that supported me a lot. I am glad that it is back and keep up the good work :)

Thanks so much for the wonderful support and encouragement you have provided to many hard working steemians by recognizing effort and passion for creating interesting and quality blogs @acidyo. I am excited to see this project progressing so well and I look forward to seeing really positive results for all concerned.

I have voted for @ocd-witness and wish you all great success.

Kind regards, Trudee.

This is a wonderful project as it seeks to better the lots of new steemians. However, how can one get whitelisted if not already? How can one join the queue? Thanks for your response.

You have to be selected for a ocd compilation by writing quality content.

Hey @jeanpi1908!^^

I think i was already curated (by you - thanks again. :)) but i couldnt find my name in the whitelist. Maybe i just misunderstood something?

This is the Post you curated:
https://steemit.com/deutsch/@remotehorst23/das-weltbild-des-menschen-paradigma-und-was-es-bewirkt-es-veraendert-die-welt

You can agree with me that we have a good number of steemians out there writing good contents. 2,700 users whitelisted by @ocdb is quite an insignificant number. There could be an alternative way though subject to scrutiny. Thanks for your attention @jeanpi1908

We carefully select the users we add and the whitelist will be growing daily. This way we minimize abuse and delegators can rest assured their votes are going to the right authors. :)

We don't intend to disclude users on purpose but there's only such manpower and voting power daily.

Will people still receive upvotes from ocd if they don't buy/delegate to the project/bot ?

Yes, @ocd will continue curation as usual soon. When they pick up new authors those authors will be added to the whitelist and are eligible for buying @ocdb votes. :)

A totally welcomed development and a long overdue one. Ever since you mentioned creating a bid bot that functions differently from the rest, I have been waiting for this announcement and what a time for it to be alive that could be better than post HF20. Kudos to you and your team Acidyo

Yes, we are looking forward to what it and @ocd curation will do to all newcomers with better account creation. We will also spend a lot of discounted accounts towards helping already curated and trusted authors easily bring their friends and family to the platform and get started properly!

@acidyo - I am currently speccing out an entire onboarding project for Steem with help of major projects behind the scenes. If you would like to be involved then let me know, I feel our aims are aligned here.

Feel free to DM me in discord for more info. Happy to help with account creation as long as it goes to real people/newcomers.

Nice, I will be watching out for the updates. Good job

That's about time, I was close to set up my own bidbot :P
Good work @ocd team!

lol. I thought communities and SMTs might have been delivered first...

Bidbots might be out of vogue by then, idk.

unlikely. they might change form somewhat though.

I strongly feel so too. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Next year will be here in a jiffy.

You can still do it, the more the merrier :)