RE: Help I was unfairly flagged, I'm not a "bot" I'm a manual curator!
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I'm just asking that he lets me do my thing to help build a strong social network.
I agree with his opinion that you were not building a strong social network. Posting image after image seems like spam to me, as I've already mentioned. Spam on a social network = bad.
when I humanly can't create more than 15 custom welcome signs per day
It would be very, very easy to program this process to do it nearly instantly. If you were rewarded for this, others would do it also in an automated fashion.
A welcome message that's just an image is, to me (and apparently others like Smooth), not a genuine welcome message. I get that's a subjective impression, which leads to my next point.
I played by the rules
So did Smooth or anyone else who flags your approach. Saying "no one else flagged" me isn't much an argument (IMO) because smart new users aren't about to start flagging things on their first post.
The fact the there existed welcome bots before my initiative indicates that there is a market for welcoming new users.
Take a look at their reputation scores now (@wang, for example, is a -16). That should tell you something about how this network feels about welcome bots or activity which mimics (or can easily be reproduced by) a welcome bot.
That's not true. Because I actually was just saluting each individual in person, using a coustomized sign for each one, that took my own time to create. A bot can't do that. Bot's are pre-programed. Those programs has no clue if the actual person that enters the network deserves a welcome message or not by judging their introductory post. Bot's can't handle a personal assitance like I did. And lately I wouldn't do any kind of software for that because my aim was totally the contrary and any one in good faith taking the time to actually check for real how I interacted with newcomers can easily confirm that I am being unfairly accused for no valid reason at all.
Stop naming me a "bot". The "network" can't feel. Also a "network" if you mean as social network means individuals. @smooth and @smooth.witness is the same person, two accounts and the only one who decided to "flagg" and destroy my initiative. Maybe he doesn't like competiton for this kind of tasks, who knows?
An indication of "how the network feels" is also the fact that NONE of the new steemians complained and also the positive feedback on my welcome message before I was censored by @smooth. That's like 100 people alltogether.
Also an indication of flagg abuse, by the way.
Reputation as of now can be easily destroyed by ONE individual with enough SP and that has nothing to do with a "network feelings", it's just a power game for a very few.
At this moment @ned upvoted this post, but I don't want to start a "whale fight", I just want to get some of you into reason and don't a like "bots" destroying user's reputations just because you can.
The fact that MANY people liked the service of the @wang bot just proved there was a need for someone taking care of newcomers. And the ones who flagged @wang said it was because it constituted a "bot". You talk to look at the -16 rep of @wang, why don't you look at the messages of many steemians backing him? That is a "network" of people. And guess what? Since I'm not a bot I manage to do my task without complains from the ones who were welcomed. So now comes the "steemit police" and destroy my rep when there was no "victim".
@smooth calls me a "spambot" and that just isn't true. I am a human curator that welcomed in a nicely way as much people as I could rationaly handle. I did it, because it's very sad to see newcomers with introductory messages being ignored for hours. So by making them feel that they are not alone on steemit encouraging them not to early abandon this platform.
And I acted as an INDIVIDUAL not as a member of a SP gang being rude to others just because they are not on my "team".
Let's talk about how humans like to abuse their power over and over again and NEVER understanding that at the end it will always harm everybody not just their "enemies" or "competitors" (real or imaginary ones).