Selfeed - Selfish feed for steemit

Social networks let us extend our narcisism to the cyborg realm. Selfishness is the main reason we all are here, behind our avatars, pushing our egos to the cloud by putting our stuff out there so others can see us. Thus, I present to you The SELFEED.

To get familiar with steem.js API I have implemented a raw idea I got a few weeks ago. I usually have a hard time going through the steemit feed. Sometimes I would just like to see the content of the users that care about me, so I can support them back and give them priority over other zombie users that don't care about my posts. Steemit does lack a personalized recommendation system and even though this small project does not cover any smart recommendations, at least it does some selfish filtering.

This script goes through the latest posts in a user profile and gets the votes and replies for each. Then for each of the users that voted and replied, it gets a score. Comments are worth 3 points, while upvotes are worth 1 point. It then gets the top 20 users that support the user's content and gets their blogs. All posts are aggregated and sorted by date from newer to older posts. It is powered by vue.js and steem.js API and is a one-page one-file application that runs on the browser without much effort (other than putting your username in the url and pressing enter).

The repository in github is here. The html file can be accessed with github raw content delivery service here:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/Guitlle/selfeed/0da3dee2/index.html

In order to see your own selfish feed, add your username as a hash. For instance, to see my own selfish feed the link would look like this:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/Guitlle/selfeed/0da3dee2/index.html#elguille

One challenge I found was managing the async calls of the API within vue.js, but I made a workaround for this. Code is quite messy and I have preferred to put it all in one file in order to get a quick prototype. Nonetheless, I might go back and clean the code in the future.

Anyway, this was a great one-night project and I have learned a lot more about steemit :)

What do you think? Do you find it useful, unethical, stupid or plain awesome?

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