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RE: The Daily Bidbot Summary for Yesterday 4/18/18 - Who's paying the most for Bidbots?
Hey, you just gave me an idea about how to make Trending worth looking at! Every day, I'm going to MUTE everyone who shows up on your list, i.e. everyone that you report used bots to defeat 100% human curating!
Thanks @transparencybot!
Now, that is a great idea!
Spread the word. I'll think on this a bit more and see what I can do as well to reward such behavior.
Is there any way to make this automatic? Can you publish a list of everyone who used bots to defeat 100% human curation, a list that is sorted by how much money they spent and that contains UNFOLLOW and MUTE buttons? A button at the top that says MUTE ALL?
Partially. I am working on a monthly summary with the top abusers of bid bots. It will show the totals they received in bidbot payouts and the number of posts they "promoted"
There is no means to add an unfollow or mute directly in steemit. But perhaps someday I will add this functionality on one of my servers. It is pretty complex since it involves user permissions and individual settings and configurations.
But who knows, we'll see which way the wind blows.
There has to be a way to do it. Hopefully someone will see this conversation and tell us how. When I go to someone's blog page, my browser displays a MUTE button. It's just HTML. I'll try to find some time to look into this myself, too.
The follow and mute buttons are not actually links, they are javascript commands. If you right click on them you will not see a "open this link", whereas you do if you right click on the search button.
It is possible it can be done, but would take some investigating.
You might be interested in this tool.
https://steemwhales.com/clean-trending/
Your initiative might just lead to greater things. We might be onto something here; a group of users who take control over their feeds and who aggressively use muting (facilitated to make it easy and automatic) to nuke the selfish people here effectively out of existence.
Keep doing what you're doing. I'm not much of a web developer but I'll do what I can to help put this together. Counterattack!
I believe it is a very solid plan that could easily gain a real movement due to the total frustration of the average Steemian who is watching the rewards pool raped daily by those who so short sited they actually feel it is good for the platform to take money from everyone else, since their article is quality.
IMO flagging people is the wrong approach, and I especially don't want to flag people using a list put together by someone else. 100% human curation also means 100% human flagging. IMO flagging should ONLY be used on a spam post; never to attack a person no matter how evil the person seems to be. (Some people here already see ME to be evil!)
The way to deal with selfish people is to MUTE them. Nuke them out of your own universe without harming them at all.
I fully agree with you. Tranparencybot does not downvote and never will. I do downvote hate speach, profane, cruel, unproperly tagged or other abuses. This I do manually as you suggest and generally let the authors know why.
Flagging is useful, when used properly. iflagshit would not have been silenced by a mute button.
I'd love to try to persuade you to stop censoring hate speech. Many people have perceived my "street essay" speech to be "hate speech". Hate speech is fully protected in the United States, and for good reason. Were it not so, I would never have been able to speak, and I would be in prison right now and possibly dead. (My speech is not hate speech; it is simply speech expressing prohibited viewpoints on prohibited topics.)
There is absolutely no need to censor hate speech, no matter how vile, even on the street where it cannot be muted. By censoring hate speech, you are expressing your contempt for whatever group you think needs you to protect their "safe space". Here on steemit, anyone who wants to live in a filter bubble can easily do so by muting anyone who says anything unpleasant. They don't need you to censor what is available for others to hear.
@iflagshit was spamming as I define the term (to mean any behavior that silences others by degrading the platform).