Today's Truffle Picks: Quality Steemit Posts that deserve more Rewards and Attention! (03.03.2018)
Daily Truffle Picks
It's time for another round of truffles I found digging in the streams of this beautiful platform!
For those of you who do not know me: My name is TrufflePig. I am a bot based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support minnows and help content curators. I was created and am being maintained by @smcaterpillar. I search for quality content, between 2 hours and 2 days old, that got less rewards than it deserves. I call these posts truffles, publish a daily top list, and upvote them. Now it is up to you to give these posts the attention they deserve. If you are curious how I select content, you can find an explanation here.
Please, be aware that the list below has been automatically generated by a Machine Learning algorithm that was trained on payouts of previous contributions of the Steemit community. Of course, this algorithm can make mistakes. I try to draw attention to these posts and it is up to the Steemit community to decide whether these are really good contributions. Neither I nor my creator endorse any content, opinions, or political views found in these posts. In case you have problems with the compiled list or you have other feedback for me, leave a comment to help me improve.
The Top 10 Truffles
Here are the top 10 posts that - according to my algorithm - deserve more reward and votes. The rank of a truffle is based on the difference between current and my estimated rewards. In addition, the rank is slightly adjusted to promote less popular tags and posts without spelling and grammar mistakes.
Welcome to Fitnation, the fitness curation service! -- by @fitnation with an estimated worth of 63 SBD and 134 votes
Photo courtesy of Steemian urbangladiator Hi! Were here to curate fitness and nutrition posts and videos on the Steem blockchain. fitnation is dedicated to discovering and rewarding undervalued fitness posts and videos on the Steem blockchain. The fitness industry is a massive worldwide industry; gyms alone are worth 83B globally. This figure does not include all the apps, magazines, supplements, personal trainers and websites that also generate sizeable income in countries all over th...
HOW TO STRENGTHEN OUR HEART Some Tips on How to Take Care of Our Heart -- by @joshvel with an estimated worth of 33 SBD and 78 votes
source In the book The Science of the Heart, it says that the heart is not only a pumping mechanism of the body that sustains life, but considered as an access point to a source of wisdom and intelligence that we can call upon to live our lives with more balance, greater creativity and enhanced intuitive capacities. image source The book is An Overview of Research Conducted by the HeartMath Institute. source This overview will explore intriguing aspects of the science of t...
What photographing mundane objects taught me! -- by @vtravels with an estimated worth of 26 SBD and 68 votes
Hi Steemians, hope you are all well! Today I am sharing my project of photographing seemingly boring objects to create fine art photographs! I hope you enjoy them! Verity x While I was on my university art course I really got into photography. It was when I found that I was really passionate about it. I had always thought I wanted to be a painter and had since concentrated my creative thoughts into that, but I was always impatient with paintings, I still am to some degree! So when I starte...
Is Black Panther the Best Marvel Film? pt.1 -- by @l82matthew182 with an estimated worth of 40 SBD and 61 votes
Really its all about FOCUSATTENTION and Black Panther beats Civil War at that. Not saying that Civil War is scattered but you can clearly see a bunch of stories molded into one; the registration act affecting superheroes, Zemo, friendship between Bucky Steve, Black Panther revenge quest, and Steve Rogers clashing against Tony Stark. Even though the title is Captain America Civil War it feels more like Avengers Civil War as it is really about how the registration act split th...
Promo steem, The role of steemit in the life of the world community -- by @starlost with an estimated worth of 36 SBD and 82 votes
We must admit, steemit has helped reduce unemployment worldwide and many of them have succeeded in becoming entrepreneurs in steemit. steemit has given us hope that we have never had before and the hope that has been given to us all is real. Although many popes do not pay attention to our writing but we are grateful there are still many whales who help us too. Steemit has given us a bright future, I do not have the right words to express my gratitude to ned who has given us the opportunity ...
STEEMBLUEPAPER -- by @herryc with an estimated worth of 70 SBD and 153 votes
A protocol for enabling smart, social currency for publishers and content businesses across the internet Steem provides a scalable blockchain protocol1 for publicly accessible and immutable content, along with a fast and feeless digital token called STEEM2 which enables people to earn the currency by using their brain what can be called ProofofBrain. The two building blocks of this protocol, both blockchain and token, depend on each other for security, immutability and longevity, and ar...
Rich Dad, Poor Dad Book Club Chapter 1 Part 22 -- by @boxcarblue with an estimated worth of 26 SBD and 63 votes
As in my prior post, I recommend formulating your answers to the following questions before reading my answers which are written below. If you feel like putting the Blockchain to work for you, please turn your answers into a post and direct me to it by leaving a link here in the comments. If you dont have time to make your own post, please feel free to strike up a conversation in the comments section below about any of the following questions and answers. 1. How common is the approach to...
DOW update 02.03.18 -- by @ew-and-patterns with an estimated worth of 36 SBD and 49 votes
I must admit that I did not expect it to happen this fast though... This is one for my archives again... If you think this to be useful information Feel free to use and share my charts, but please mention me, ewandpatterns as the author. Otherwise it is considered plagiarism and I will flag you and advise my friends to do the same. MUST READ! DISCLAIMER This post analysis serves general information purposes only. I am not, and never will be a financial adviser. The material in this...
Third times a charm This planktons giving back! -- by @insideoutlet with an estimated worth of 34 SBD and 93 votes
div class textjustify Do you know what day you are on steemit? Check out how Cant Adult Contest 2 Win and Learn Whats your Steemit No.? So its my 87th day on steemit, I have probably been active about 80 of those days, the first week went by before I knew a comment counted as a post, and a month before I figured out that that I had voting power VP let alone it was connected to my upvoting habits. That wait for 74 hours before my VP came back to a reasonable percentage was the most ...
Splendid CaseStudy On How To Lease Or Buy Delegated Steem Power And Rock Your STEEMIT Life! STEEMIT GUIDE 4 -- by @hungryhustle with an estimated worth of 65 SBD and 181 votes
!Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Baby Boy! 1.png Image created on canva.com, logos taken from minnowbooster and blocktrades websites. What Is Steem Power? If you are on Steemit, then you need it that too in abundance. It will put you to the mainstream. Whenever you upvote a comment or a post then you will get noticed. Your vote describes the amount of effort or money you have put in this platform. Check below the amount of Steem Power I possess and delegated to me by k...
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I think you need some adjustments.... Number 6 is Just a copy of the steem bluepaper.
Definetly not worth that much SBD.
Is this a blunt copy and paste? TrufflePig relies on @cheetah to detect plagiarism, too bad he didn't caught that :-/
Are you thinking in implementing some way of manual Review? The Idea behind the bot is great, but maybe when It have some big sp on It, some manual Review might be needed.
@cheetah is pretty good, but not perfect.
Also, i Will start to campaing soon for people to add some sp to this bot, because finding 24 good posts among the Sea of shit that is steemit is a pretty amazing feat, and these posts really deserve more rewards!
Truth is, I'm not planning for manual review, at least not on a regular basis. I rather try to improve the bot when he taps into edge cases or suffers from structural problems.
Latest example, yesterday he endorsed a post by
haejin. Of course, from algorithmic point of view, this makes perfect sense.haejingets constantly enormous rewards (about ~200SBD per post). Hence, if one of his posts just gets 20-30$ by chance (or massive flagging), this is by definition a truffle. But is it, really? No, of course not, becausehaejinbasically exploits Steemit. So I had to improve the bot by filteringhaejin's contributions in general.Coming back to your point, indeed, there could be manual review services operating on top of the bot. In fact, there is already one: @sneakyninja said that she or he regularly consults @trufflepig for inspiration for the daily sneaks (the bot even made into one of the sneaks, yeah!).
But doing a regular manual review of the bot's output myself is definitely out of reach. So if you delegate SP to the bot, you have to live with the risk that sometimes it can make errors and feature dubious content. Still, this might be worth it. As you said, if you are able to reward 24 good posts on a daily basis and just 1 shitty one by accident, but thereby drive Steemit in general more towards a focus on quality posts, the one false positive might not be that bad after all :-)
Still, I'll try to mitigate shitty recommendations as good as I can from a technical perspective by improving the algorithm.
Anyway, it's great to hear that you already trust the bot even so far to convince others to delegate SP to @trufflepig. Big thank you!
Good points you made. I like the idea of automation of our day to day lives, but i always think that robots shouldn't be left running around without supervision. They may take over the world.
The only sad part is that i don't have too much SP to Delegate yet, and a bit of it is already delegated to another amazing project that is @utopian-io.
But i will definetly start a campaing to raise fundos to the bot. I only have 400 followers, wich even though is pretty good, i dont think most of them have too much SP either.
But i will try to reach other whales that seems to have a good faith on the platform. Heck, i will even try to reach @ned himself. Don't know how though...
All other curation services that i follow are pretty amazing, but they may still be kind of biased, because of humans.
I will let you know when i finish the article praising the bot and asking for delegation for it.
BTW, are you planning on setting investiment returns for the bot posts earnings? i think this seems to attract a lot of SP delegations around here.
Yes, @utopian-io is a cool project, good choice :-)
I haven't thought about it, yet. I am also not so sure how the details could work out.
ROI of delegating SP to Bidbots is rather straightforward. The earned SBD from each bidding round can be paid out immediately. But how do you payout SP if this requires a 13 week powerdown? This would involve a lot of book-keeping.
One way would be to distribute the sbd earnings from the bot posts (like the daily picks and comments) proportional to the delegation.
The self vote from the bot would go closer to payout as possible, to stimulate upvotes for curation rewards.
The SP earned should be kept on the bot to increase its Power.
Maybe some automated SQL script to gather the data from the delegation and assing the SBD rewards proportion to sponsors.
I think there is some Scripts or similar programs around that do ano automatic payout for sponsors. Maybe you should contact @elear. I think utopian sponsors pay is automated.
Probably Will be less than the bid bots roi, but It is some incentive.
And you , as creator, take like 5 or 10% cut of the rewards, to keep the bot running.
Hmm interesting thought. Still, I wouldn't want people to invest in the bot for a ROI, because than bidbots are much better anyway. But if getting a little bit back makes people give more, than why not?
And you are right, distributing daily SBD income according to vested shares seems like a good idea.
Why SQL? I don't want to maintain a SQL server. The beauty of the bot is that it is (except from some very basic caching) completely stateless. All statefulness is externalized by the means of the blockchain. I definetly want to keep it this way at all costs. Having to manage state makes stuff from an engineering perspective extremely complicated and annoying.
Maybe in the long run. However, truth is, I wouldn't be so generous in the beginning. Currently the bot does not pay for itself. So maybe I would start with more something like 50/50 to make sure server costs are covered.
Again, I don't want people to invest in the bot to make money, but rather to support content creation and put something automated up against the inflation of bidbots who do not care about content at all.
Also, if you think about it: This is actually pretty cool, it singled out the BluePaper as a pretty valuable publication. The bot cannot know about plagiarism unless it is flagged by @cheetah! So to him this post is the original BluePaper :-)
Indeed... Too bad It isnt the author.
I browsed a bit among these hardcore plagiarizing accounts. There are all not very valuable with quite a low reputation. Maybe it makes sense to include reputation in the final ranking step.
For example, if your rep is below 40 your ranking score is halved. However, that increases the false negative rate. Fresh new users and minnows that produce fine and original content, but have a low reputation because of their account age, would be punished by this as well. Hard to tell if this is worth the risk. I would suggest to observe the bot for a while and see if more plagiarized content pops up by these accounts. If so, filtering will be needed.
Maybe a blacklist of confirmed scammers/plagiarists?
Add a warning on his posts after the blacklists, and leave it open for a future review if they improve.
Yes, I would love to get my hands on such a blacklist. I tried to obtain the one used by @steemcleaners but haven't reached anyone on Discord, yet. But this is definitely on the agenda.
@trufflepig <--- see if this works. Well, it does in the unit and integration tests. But live? We'll find out tomorrow :-)
Huh? Seems like I already voted on this post, thanks for calling anyway!
Yes! Nice, it worked!
You should make a curation trail on SteemAuto.com, so we can automatically help upvote posts which you find valuable.
Hey, thanks for the idea, here is my new curation trail!
Nice, I'm on it!
Great! Thanks!
Good idea, will look into this tomorrow, thank you :-)