This is a daily summary for Transparency Bot.

For more information on this project, you can view the introduction post here.

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How to Read this Report:

• The number of comments (and blog posts) posted by transparencybot each day.
• The number of upvotes it received that day.
• The number of downvotes it received each day.

Date	Posts	UpVotes	DownVotes
04/09/18	96	33	4
04/10/18	79	117	13
04/11/18	62	110	19
04/12/18	58	73	9
04/13/18	64	81	9
04/14/18	86	115	41

Comments:

The massive increase in downvotes on 4/14/18 can be contributed almost entirely to a single voter who maliciously targeted every comment made by Transparency Bot. The increase in upvotes was in response to this and also a very welcome community response to help support this initiative.

Of note, there was also an increase in the total number of posts on 4/14 having bidbot payouts in excess of $50.00. Part of this increase is a result of transparency bot increasing its reach into higher reputation authors as it gains in strength.

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A few comments on patience.

When @introbot (a sibling of @transparencybot) first started and asking people not to introduce themselves more than once, I received an inrush of very hateful, cruel and personal attacks by those who had been using this tag as their personal posting area.

There were hundreds of users posting hundreds of times, daily and weekly in the tag, making it completely useless for that which is was intended.

After only a few short weeks, the number of repeat introductions in the tag dropped dramatically and now only a few remain. The bot has been hugely successful.

This mission is no different and it will take a little time for the results to filter in.

I do hope that this time will be granted, the platform is surely worth it.

At this point it is TRULY up to the community to decide.

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Why do we need more transparency?

Yes, transparency Bot is presenting information that IS available on the blockchain, but NOT otherwise available on Steemit.

Transparency allows all of us who care about this platform to know what is going on, directly see how it affects us, become more educated as to what can be done and then; hopefully, act in a way that protects our platform for years to come.

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@TransparencyBot needs your help, this must be a community effort or it WILL fail.

This is a non-profit initiative, all funds received by or delegated to it will be used directly for this mission only. No one, including myself is being paid for any service or product. Please consider supporting it by upvoting this post and/or the comments left by @transparencybot.

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