Why Do You Dislike @cheetah?
Everyone keeps their distance from @cheetah as it were plague, when I don't feel that appropriate. I ask the community to explain me why do they not like it.
The Point When I Have to Ask
Recently, I saw that @cheetah commented under @steemitblog's post about Steem 0.16.1. I've read it suddenly after it was posted. It was:
Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:
A LINK
(I cannot guarantee that the quote 100% identical with what I've seen because my memory is not that good, steemd.com is down for me, and I've just used Google.)
@dantheman politely asked @cheetah to whitelist @steemitblog. I like the way he did it (he could downvote it easily), but I don't understand, why he did that? And I also have seen similar replies (and a lot that weren't polite) all over Steemit.
I don't see anything wrong in the quoted comment.
How I See It
This is a robot that gives the users useful information. They could do what they want with that information then. The robot didn't downvote (in fact, it upvoted) the post. It didn't say that anyone did anything wrong. Perhaps you cannot prescind from why the bot was made. IMO, it's not important.
Explain It
I didn't want to comment about this at there after all, because it could be flagged as offtopic (slightly deservedly). Therefore I ask you all here:
- What is in @cheetah's comment that is so undesirable?
- Why you don't want to see it under your posts?
- What do you think about @cheetah?
- What is your opinion about content detection robots?
Image Credits
[1] by Tambako The Jaguar, CC BY-ND
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I think it is smart. It points out that one may find the same material somewhere else. It does not say anything about who copied whom. That is for us to decide.
I saw a post yesterday in which the image caught my eye. https://steemit.com/verse/@adelja/don-t-just-say
There is no credit for the image. I did a Google search and found it here https://www.shockblast.net/joanna-and-claire-x-fe/
Now I chose not to say anything about it but @cheetah model might have been a good way to pass on a message to those interested enough. We will find out if the community is interested when someone chooses to build a bot that checks images.
I think this pic was seen on the ''poetry all in one block'' account. I've stopped following this account yesterday. The almost automatic ''beautiful girls'' and ''following who follows me'' days are over for me, more unfollowing might be on the way so to clean my feed. I never followed people who follow me elsewhere. Then why do it on Steemit? Everybody gets pride from their Steem accomplishments: did I change my ways because I wanted to have more followers?
Safari cheetah (safari=pictures) is a good idea! :-)
I had my doubts at first about upvoting, but now after seeing it in action I think @cheetah has found the right formula. I imagine that from an outsider perspective even a small bot bit of negativity could detract someone from joining Steemit.
It's beautiful post!!
Great job thank you for sharing :))