TransparencyBot - Daily Report Card as of Yesterday 4/21/18
This is the daily summary for Transparency Bot as of the end of the day yesterday.
For more information on this project, you can view the introduction post here.
How to Read this Report:
- The number of comments (and blog posts) posted by transparencybot each day.
- The number of replies made directly to the comments left by transparencybot.
- The number of upvotes it received that day. (Does not include upvotes from transparencybot (if any).
- The number of downvotes it received that day.
| Date | Posts | Replies | UpVotes | DownVotes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/09/18 | 181 | 35 | 145 | 28 |
| 04/10/18 | 79 | 23 | 99 | 13 |
| 04/11/18 | 62 | 34 | 99 | 20 |
| 04/12/18 | 58 | 19 | 66 | 9 |
| 04/13/18 | 64 | 33 | 86 | 10 |
| 04/14/18 | 86 | 49 | 118 | 43 |
| 04/15/18 | 78 | 32 | 92 | 17 |
| 04/16/18 | 85 | 16 | 63 | 6 |
| 04/17/18 | 89 | 24 | 59 | 2 |
| 04/18/18 | 143 | 29 | 81 | 7 |
| 04/19/18 | 123 | 10 | 51 | 3 |
| 04/20/18 | 127 | 16 | 36 | 7 |
| 04/21/18 | 127 | 18 | 65 | 1 |
Comments:
I am expecting an increase in the number of posts made each day starting 4/18/18 as @transparencybot has begun commenting on all posts, which now includes those with reputations above 70.
All in all, transparencybot is being seen as a constructive and useful display of information for all those interested to analyze.
A few comments on patience.
When @introbot (a sibling of @transparencybot) first started and asking people not to introduce themselves more than once, I received an inrush of very hateful, cruel and personal attacks by those who had been using this tag as their personal posting area.
There were hundreds of users posting hundreds of times, daily and weekly in the tag, making it completely useless for that which is was intended.
After only a few short weeks, the number of repeat introductions in the tag dropped dramatically and now only a few remain. The bot has been hugely successful.
This mission is no different and it will take a little time for the results to filter in.
I do hope that this time will be granted, the platform is surely worth it.
At this point it is TRULY up to the community to decide.
Why do we need more transparency?
Yes, transparency Bot is presenting information that IS available on the blockchain, but NOT otherwise available on Steemit.
Transparency allows all of us who care about this platform to know what is going on, directly see how it affects us, become more educated as to what can be done and then; hopefully, act in a way that protects our platform for years to come.
As of 4/18/18, @transparencybot will begin upvoting random posts that use the #nobidbot tag and have not used bidbots on the post.
The number of random votes it does a day depends on its remaining voting power.
Latter on, a filter to select only authors with reputation's of perhaps 60 (or 50) and below may be incorporated, but for now it is wide open.
This is a non-profit initiative, all funds received by or delegated to it will be used directly for this mission only. No one, including myself is being paid for any service or product. Please consider supporting it by upvoting this post and/or the comments left by @transparencybot.
@bycoleman
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Craig
You know, I've been crawling around some of these links, and I have a feeling that people aren't realizing that they are losing money and are using bid bots because "that's the way to use steemit". I think some education could go a long way. Others use it fully aware that they are losing money to get exposure. The fact that you have these two groups mixed means a significant portion of people are basically bleeding money when in their minds they think they are earning.
I have to crawl more to be sure of my assessment, but if this is the case, that might be another angle to approach this-- informing those that think they are earning that they are not actually earning.
If people realize this, it may reduce demand for bid bots and really only make them for promotion. On the other hand, it simultaneously makes the bid bots more profitable for those that use it that way, so it's kind of a hilarious trade off....
(Doing the actual computation requires pulling a lot more information about the posts in terms of timing of the bot vote and etc, does your bot do that already?)
You are correct, most people are loosing money using bots. If the article does not get propelled to the trending list, they are almost guaranteed a loss.
As far at the curation goes, I am working on the final formula to take the square root of each vote in sequence to get the true curation reward, but it will not differ much from the estimate that is being posted now. This is due to the fact that the bots bids are so much larger than all other bidders that it warps the formula to itself. IOW, it gets the around 25% of the curation reward, regardless if it the last or first voter after the 30 minute window.
People flock to these big payout posts that have used bidbots, trying to get some curation rewards, but infact, they get almost nothing, the bots get it all!
Oh I don't mean that part, I mean solely the timing of the vote in the first 30 minutes. When I used bid bots I was certainly timing my bot votes to less than 3 minutes. Bot owners have started to crack down on this though.
It's funny actually... The adjustments that are being made actually give a lot more money to the bot against the bidder. They argue that it should solely be used for promotion and not returns, which is actually a fair point, but damnit, bots should not be getting this much money for milking the promotion angle. I really hope the next hard fork addresses it. If native promotion worked, bid bots would disappear overnight!
Ah, I understand now.
You are so correct. If there was a decent native promotion or better filtering of articles, bots would be out of business!
this is truth, people have no idea that they are losing money on bots but aren't spending enough to reach hot or trending and are not getting followers from it
I really appreciate how you are upvoting posts in the #nobidbot. It’s kind of ironic that a bot is upvoting posts which are against bots but such is the nature of steemit haha, your bot is totally different from a bidbot.
I want to encourage some more people to upvote you. I’m going to mention you again in a future post.
Thank you for the kind words. #notbidbot was your idea of course, congratulations on this.
I am not at all against bots, only bidbots.
Steemcleaners, cheeta, spaminator, abusereports, steemitboard etc are all bots. Absolute assets to the platform.
Blessings!
I'd like to talk to you about transparencybot, please send me an email to [email protected] thanks
Email sent.
Blessings!
I get it. I just think there are far too many bots here, but there are some, like yours and the ones you mention which have become really essential.