It's an Aussie Ninja bot-athon!

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Hi everyone!

I just wanted to warn regular readers of this here blog, that I'm messing around with some Steemy things that will most likely shock and concern you.

I've created some bots to help with some games that @happyme, @lordnigel and @daclawboyz are running, as well as a slightly more complex one for @mattclarke. They've been having some teething problems though, which great guys @sambillingham and @cryptonik have very patiently and kindly helped me with.

One of the problems I've faced was bandwidth... brand new users don't get a lot of bandwidth (the ability to post content and votes), so I'm trying to get around that by having them follow my votes so they'll get some curation rewards. I've also set up automated voting of my Steemit Besties when they comment on my posts or comments because bot life is automated life.

Sooooo... what this means is that 30 minutes after you comment on my junk, you'll automatically get upvoted by like 7 peeps. Don't be alarmed, their friendly... like this guy:

The second part of the puzzle is I'm trying to build the bot accounts up so that eventually they can upvote the people that call them and we can effectively pay people to play games on Steem. This project is really exciting to me.

I'll go into more detail about what all the various bots and accounts do, once I really get them working. I think I'm really close, but one thing they've taught me is to never, ever think you're close.

I've chosen to earn them curation rewards on comments instead of curation trails because of math. If you follow curation trails with a tiny $0.01 vote, then that 25% gets divided up amongst all the big players and your percentage ends up being too tiny to make any difference. Instead they'll follow me since I can automatically vote on my post regulars, and then I'll delegate most of my SP to the last bot (who won't earn any curation) to come in behind all the others.

If you guys want to grab some curation monies too, feel free to upvote my regulars before my automated voting comes in 30 minutes after their comment. Although, I assume you're all like me and struggle with minimal VP literally all the time. Voting really does stress me out, I definitely overthink it so I'm hoping this whole thing will take it out of my hands and I can just comment away like a boss.

Other than that, the Australian Ninja Games are hotting up, so I'll have some posts on that... I'm loving my work on @thefreshfive and I'm still trying to slowly get my head around @curie... and of course my training, which I have to get back to right now... I just took a break because it's so grindy and hard.

If literally none of this made sense, let me know and I'll gif at you until it does... or we can just go back to talking about snow and pull ups. I'm easy.

steemaroo divider and ninja upgoats drawn by the incredible @ryivhnn