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RE: Bots are Ruining the Mainstream Potential of Steemit
Bring on the bot wars! Bots serve a purpose. You've given examples of how bots have done this. I agree the functions that these bots serve could be integrated into the steemit system thereby negating the need for them and I think this is something to consider. However, is it not beneficial to allow bots to arrive on the scene and identify a niche function they can serve? It they prove useful their function can be integrated into the system. Do bots not have the potential to help the platform evolve in useful directions?
Of course pc101 is gonna be pro-bot! :)
@pc101 Upvoted and totally agree. Bots serve a purpose and rules right now favor bots over humans. More importantly the changes in rule #176 which limited posting to 4x a day actually created a much better environment for bots since they moved the incentives away for humans to post.
@dev00100000 Want less bots and a more social, social media platform. Drop rules that limit the number of posts you can make in a day and instead charge a fee to post. A penny per thought, and then you make it back if people upvote you.
Since that is clearly not ever going to happen, you will need to deal with bots and honestly the solution looks a whole lot more like this...
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@williambanks/announce-steembots-com-your-source-for-everything-bot-related-now-hiring
Notice what I did with calva in there? Just add #STEEMBOTSTAY to your posting and any bot on our code of conduct will stay out.
Anyways read what I wrote and put some comments and feedback in there, whether you love bots or hate bots, STEEMBOTS is trying to make steem a better place
Thanks. Where can we see the rules such as the rule #176 that you mention above?
Sorry about that. I should have said issue 176 which means it's on the github issues list which is the proper way to be discussing issues with the platform since the devs can't be expected to check steemit constantly for platform feedback.
Thanks, I'll link it here for the who are curious:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/176
Why would Steemit want to build these into the system when other users can build the tools and use their bots to interact with the STEEM blockchain? Isn't that what decentralization is about?
Why not submit the idea into GitHub. This is an open source project, is it not? What's the difference between developing a bot which invades the social space, compared to doing it behind the scenes? Linux is an open source OS... I don't have any bots telling me what to do when I boot it up.
cough SystemD cough
Lol, ok, I laughed at that.
Good point. I think some bots, not all bot, will highlight short comings in the current system. It might make sense to modify the system in response, e.g. to prevent manipulation of the system in some way. I do however think there is a benefit to keeping some bots as bots. For example, there might emerge a rival to @wang that serves the same function but does so more effectively. By not incorporating @wang into the system we are allowing peoples subjective opinions to decide with of these bots best serve a particular function.