RE: Ну, здравствуй, Новый Робингуд!
In addition to that, my bot was meant to be a bot that even people with very minimal money to spend, could get a decent upvote and be a part of the ecosystem more. It was meant to grow and scale with time, but remain @ the cost of 0.1 STEEM per a vote, no matter how powerful. (Even if the bot can give $1, you still only pay 0.1 STM. Even if it gives $5... only 0.1 STM.) so my bot wasn't like other bots to begin with. It was a concept. A concept that anyone should be able to buy value, and decent value at that, no matter their personal wealth. (If you can only afford a few dollars and not thousands, you can STILL get votes from MY bot.) Not unlike initiatives like @steembasicincome, it was meant to look out for the little people and help them to not get lost in the sea that is steem, simply because they did not have enough money to be relevant. When you attach a currency to a social media aspect, you invite business in to begin with. Even if the business is YOU and you're selling YOUR brand, you are still a business here by nature of the chain.
Please stop acting like this is facebook and all we're allowed to do is post about our lives and comment on it. Steem is SO much more than that and if you keep your mind closed, it will never reach it's potential.
Also, I get that most bot owners aren't that involved or involved at all anymore, but we are on this one. Me any my "team" (friends) watch this bot and try to care about what people have to say about it. If you feel like value should be added somewhere, how about tell us? Prior to the purging of all the accounts voted on purely for curation... we had this bot giving FREE value to those who we felt were producing quality content on the chain. This means people didn't need to pay us anything and we were giving them pennies to tens of pennies (while our vote @ 100% was only $0.18 or so.) for nothing in return and asking nothing of them. This was in addition to selling votes. As our power grew and we grew our delegations (Out of our own pockets by the way...) we started to interact with the chain in positive ways and take our own personal time to read the posts that were being posted and shared and see where value was missing and add a little bit to it. Once the maliciousness began, we went into full drain mode and stopped circulating delegations for the time being. We still tried to assign sufficient value, but without renewing all of our delegations, we wouldn't match the power of flagging efforts of the @clvr owner. To no avail, they wouldn't shut the bot off either. All this meant was that it was time to test the bot. It wasn't a very well written bot. It had no caps/limits on voting power and allowed us to drain it horribly. It targeted our comments which really made no sense as we only self voted them sparingly in the beginning to test returns on non-voted on posts... but I digress... Now we are able to provide more value than it can take away, again, should we renew delegations... but who knows how it'll act when it's power restores. Caps or no caps, scaling vote % or non... it will be easy to manipulate the bot again should it not be controlled manually... but why should we have this battle? The bot owner does us more good by having full voting power and flagging us and removing larger value, because the bot is not upvoting at all. The bot not upvoting at all means that all of the votes coming from the bots it's trying to fuck with, are stronger.... it's like the owner doesn't understand that. It needs to assign it's positive value as well, otherwise it's only removing MORE stake from the entire pool, causing all other votes to be worth more. :) The owner of the bot does not understand how the ecosystem or the core code work and it's apparent... They are a script kiddie most likely and will fall short against actual coders... :( Let's hope they're open to reason and logic and seeing the other perspectives involved here and the other implications, instead of just being mad that vote bots are a thing because the past gave them horrible names since the past owners were (mostly.) reckless. New steem can mean new views on vote bots too. Just something to consider.
Everything is very simple:
I sent you steem-s several times.
But you didn’t give me your upvote.
Next I got dislikes from @clvr.
It was pure loss and misery for me.
This is bad business.
It doesn't take a lot of words. We need a real result.
The result was bad.
The topic has been exhausted.