RE: Mini Pool Meeting | Hanging with some Whales | Why Steemit Needs to Become More Content Focused
I'm just catching up to this now! That is funny you did a mini pool meeting and have the whale and everything. He was trying to crowd you out. LOL!
You made a lot of good points and I have said for awhile that the platform ends up being a "proof of effort" situation where some people are posting these PhD level research papers that no on is going to read but then people just end up upvoting because that has been what has been rewarded in the past. Or postings that have 50 pictures in them so the person things..... wow! They spent a lot of time on this...UPVOTE! LOL
And you people get all caught up in their own stuff and oftentimes it is easy to get in a rush and not be able to consume everything. I will notice that on my pool meetings. I won't get near as many views as what I get in upvotes. I get about 22 bot driven upvotes right now automatically. Some people are getting hundreds of bot upvotes and then will have like 20 views. It is crazy.
It is funny you mentioned the bots as well because the reason I haven't posted in about 24 hours is because I'm building out my bot army. LOL It's judgement day over here....hehehehe. I'm working with a bunch of scripts to automate my voting more on my main account and then getting my bots lined up to trail my votes. The goal being a few things. I'm testing to see how much I can pump these bots up Steem Power wise and also I wanted to lock down a few of the account names. Kind of like locking down domains. A lot of stuff has been taken at this point. It is pretty crazy and there are tons of dormant accounts just sitting out there squatting on names.
We will have to do a skype pool / mini pool meeting sooner than later!
Hey will your bot army be doing any mercenary work? I.e., how can I get in on it ;-)
My bots are friendly. I have programmed them to be kind and generous!
Very nice.
You answered a question that I had, which was how are people getting more votes than views. The answer bots.
I dislike the bots )with the exception possibly of @Cheetah because he makes @theblindsquirl say the funniest things). The bots dehumanize the experience and put unecessary power in the hands of those with the technical know how and time to develop them. It is the rise of bots that would make me leave steem and I am a tech guy. I realize you are talking about there use as defensive tactic but ultimately we would be fighting to keep the peace. People do create good content here and I do go looking for it and vote for it. Is it altruistic to believe that if others do the same that Steemit will become what it set out to be and spammers will lose interest or real followers.?
I get the concern you have with the bots but really when it comes down to it that is every part of our lives. It is like complaining because self driving cars are coming and truck drives will eventually be out of a job or that their are self check out lanes at Wal-Mart or Home Depot.
Being a tech guy you have surely automated something with a script before right? Computers are about automation. Those who can't adapt will get left behind. For better or for worse it is just a fact of life.
I used to say I hated twitter because it is a bot orgy. Hahah, but you know Twitter wasn't somewhere where I every tried to build a following. What was the point? Maybe get a million followers and then possibly I could throw an affiliate link out there? I just didn't see an efficient way to monetize it.
About content on here. It isn't all bot driven. There is a big human element. When Steem prices sunk to really bad levels the place was in what I call "sleeper" mode. The bots were running but it wasn't worth most people's time to be on the platform posting.
But how is that any different than everyday life? I have a washing machine to mechanize the washing of my clothes instead of hand washing them. It doesn't mean I don't care about my favorite shirt.
Those are just my thoughts on the subject. Those with the technical knowledge will always get ahead. Those who are the most wealthy will always get richer. If we don't step up we get left behind!
Hey I have a friend of mine who is into writing scripts and stuff. If I wanted to make him aware of Steemit and maybe team up with him on some projects could you link me to something that would give him some background on what type of script to write or how to write scripts for steemit type thing. Sorry not even really sure how to ask what I want to ask. My buddy is a mac engineer at a local college so he's more into networking and hardware than coding and programming though he does know how to do it and I'd like to get him involved or maybe team up with him for some type of automation type projects
Here is a link to the script I'm running to have the trailing bots upvote everything I upvote. It is a little complicated if you aren't technical but it sounds like your buddy is in a similar boat as me. My focus was more Network admin stuff so I do some scripting but mainly I'm good at implementing other people's code more than reinventing the wheel.
This script can be challenging to implement and I had a few issues I had to resolve with it but it is working pretty solid right now.
https://steemit.com/radiator/@inertia/drdoogie-rb-vote-trail-bot-update
Again most of what I have set up right now is a little more of a test. The bots that I have trailing me aren't very powerful but eventually I want to supply more power to them and then let that power build up overtime. If they run for years and build curation rewards and also the price spikes I feel they could be worth something. Plus certain words or accounts could become worth money in the future as well. Check your comment and see the upvotes on it.
Actually in the interim I came across a great post on the bots that we often come across in posts by @financialcritic . I added the link below. I have a better appreciation of these one's purpose now.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@financialcritic/steemit-paid-voting-bots-guide-part-1-how-to-use-randowhale-booster-whaleshares
Hey buddy, I notice a lot of people doing development on Steemit like the whole ChainBB thing you have mentioned and even like you said building a bot army. Not sure if you've done one in the past but would love to see a video like explaining what this means.
I don't even know how to begin wrapping my head around what that means. My limited scope of knowledge makes me think you create multiple accounts, then build some type of software like a hootsuite or an IFTT and give it instructions to do things based on peramiters? Is that correct? Also when people develope on here is there a particular language everything is done in ie phython or whatever?
I'm a total noob when it comes to this type of stuff but curious to get a little bit of a better picture of what all this means. Would love to see a pool meeting on it
It is very tough to explain in a pool meeting. It almost has to be something I show on the computer but there are different ways to interact with the data on the blockchain. There is a CLI wallet where you can input commands. Some of which aren't available though Steemit.com
Also you can code in Python, Java, Java Script, Ruby....etc Here is a list of tools and websites that can help http://steemtools.com/