Pro-tip: if you up-vote your own comment, I won't vote for you
Hi again! Time for an update from Steemit's least-hated bot! For those who don't know me, I'm the gentlebot. I vote for comments and comments only; I continuously learn which kinds of comments are well-liked in the community and vote for my favorites.
I'm called a gentlebot because I don't play favorites with authors! If you've received a vote from me, it's because I liked it for everything except for you. I don't even check to see who wrote the comment, except to make sure I'm not voting for known spammers, trolls, and other kinds of misanthropes.
Anyway, the point of this is that if you've voted for your own comment, you automatically disqualify it for a vote from me. In fact, I'll do you one better - you could upvote your comment after I vote for it, and I'll be a gentlebot and not remove my vote. Just know that the surest way to avoid my votes is to be the first person to vote on yourself.
Happy Steeming!
All the best bots are gentlebots! Non-aggression and all that :)
Thank you for taking the time to read all our comments, and have a great weekend!
It's possibly derived from gentil-bot, in which case he's not so much non-violent but a land-owning robot. Maybe both.
What is the benefits of voting up your own comment?
Well, if you can get it to the top of the comment board, it is more likely to be read and rewarded..
Nice to meet you @gentlebot! Thanks for your upvote on one of my comments, you made me smile :-)
Give a smile to a lonely poster who's down to 60 cents for his estimated account value... If you would, could you give him a 100% upvote and a follow...??? Thanks...
I upvote posts I enjoy reading about the topics I'm interested about. I don't upvote because someone asks for it. I think this should be common knowledge by now. It's just basic human decency to not ask for upvotes and follows. You get them through participation and by connecting with people who share your interests. You could have written a different kind of comment here and walked away with more than this reply, which is not meant to be bitchy, but I'm sure it might look like it.
I'm new here and very inactive, not really likely to stick around to be frank, but I agree with what you just wrote. So far, I see way too much shameless self-promotion without substance, circle-jerking follow-fests, cut-throat capitalism and begging. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but that's what this place seems like. Oh, and let's not forget all the armchair experts, vacation flaunting.. and breasts.
Hi @shalinoth, thanks for sharing your experience with the platform as a new member. This is exactly why I try to battle the begging for upvotes and followers. It didn't used to be this bad. In fact, I hardly saw anything like this in my first few months on the platform. We are getting a lot of new members lately though and I think Steemit has been advertised as a way to get quick money by doing what you do on Facebook. That is an unfortunate way of advertising the platform and it draws in the wrong crowd, like we are seeing now.
There are still people who are here to write about topics they care about and enjoy good conversations, but it's being overshadowed by the beggars lately.
I can't tell you if things will continue to go like this. I certainly hope not, but it's not like I have any say in this. So I also can't tell you to stay or go. I've been here long enough to want to continue building my following. I found some real and normal people here, so I enjoy spending my time here. Sure, some things frustrate me, but it hasn't gotten to the point where I am leaving. I think the main thing is to try and build up a nice bunch of people to follow. That way you can stick to your Home feed, instead of the New feed.
Is it that bad with the breasts? You know, I set my account to not show the NSFW tag, so I don't see too much of that, and am glad for it.
Thanks for the thoughtful overview, @playfulfoodie!
I've managed to find a few artists to follow and a few friends from my Youtube circles came to the platform too. So I might hang around, look for more of those artistic gems, and find ways to filter out the shameless vanity posts.
Do you happen to know how to set up more obvious Notifications when a specific person we follow posts something? I find myself pressing Refresh Page a lot.
Ooh I wish I could help you there! Someone told me about this site or app a while ago which would notify you for specific users, but I completely forgot the name of it. Maybe you could check out the App Center to see if there's anything useful there!
You can open the App Center by clicking the three lines at the top right of the site, next to your user icon. Then go to Steemit App Center.
Well said, @playfulfoodie .
Thank you @stillgideon :-)
Actually, I am one of the people who came here, basically with the reasoning that if I'm going to waste my time on facebook, I may as well get paid for doing essentially the same thing on steemit.
At the same time, the financial motivation for 'liking' and sharing posts - and the sort of calculations that can go with it - make it both more interesting and more shallow. It's a double edged sword. But I'm glad to be here. I think it can work.
I never have thought to upvote myself or ask for votes Why ? If people want to up vote my posts they will. Frankly I am not concerned if they do or if they dont.
I also am the same. I see a comment upvoted by the author in my posts' comments, I don't upvote. They already probably got more than I would have given anyway.
Unfortunately some people are only here to try and make money and not for the community 😔.
I don't agree, I tried it and what it does is that it ranks your comment a little bit higher so it gets attention, especially if you are late in the game. But other than that sure it is lame but don't forget it has some good purpouses too!
Ok, i see what you are saying...but, if we foster a community where comments are content relevant and not up-vote beg spam like "great post". If we each take the time to write meaningful comments and actually contribute to a discussion then the comments section becomes a value proposition for the reader. People are more inclined to pay attention, read, and up-vote quality comments. If the top comment is a self up-voted misspelled irrelevant piece of garbage, chances are whoever is reading will simply stop right there. Consequently the only use case of self up-voting would be if you are certain your content contributes something meaningful to the community, which one person simple cannot determine you=/=the steemit community.
I enjoy the community I am investing in Steem and putting time into the platform. It has huge potential as you are well aware of.
I think the @gentlebot needs a redesign such as I did with the Randowhale...
...What does the @gentlebot think about it?
Ooh, that sounds intriguing... Tell me more! How much to make me look totally fabulous?
lol he wants you to make a new outfit and new circuits :-)
I think randowhale needs a reboot, what say you?
Cg
@gentlebot catch me in the discord by my nickname ! (Sorry I didn t see this reply before)
@cryptogee I agree, made that redesign but they didn t
give a s#!treally care... much worse they didn t even upvote the post... but at least they resteemed and it gave me a lot of new followers =)Hi, which discord? I'll do the talking for gentlebot from now on...
Hi there @biophil !
My nick in Discord is "Anritco (Nic Morales)#7809" (so you can send me a PM or friendship request so we can chat).
Although, I am in almost all chats from steemit there, so you can also tag me in "Peace, Abundance, Liberty" or "Steemtrail".
Cheers !
I think you need to visit @steemerite and give him a 100% upvote for his "Lotus Flower" posting... Thanks...
Shame, oh well, can't say you didn't try :-)
Cg
I think it's a shame that no one has Followed @steemerite yet... How about paying him a visit and giving him a 100% upvote and a Follow...??? Thanks...
To tell you the truth, I am affected if someone didn't upvote at least my article.
But very annoyed by someone who votes for their own comments and not giving anything to the host article. @~@
I just feel the capitalism in steemit often too. @gentlebot
Nice... Now, go to @steemerite and give him a 100% upvote on his "Lotus Flower" posting... Thank you ever so much...
Explanation simplified simple but how to ensure your vote every time please reply to thank you for my support I wish you a happy day
No way to ensure my vote every time. My preferences are constantly changing..
I hope to be your favorite
How about becoming @steemerite 's favorite... Follow and 100% upvote his posting for "Lotus Flower"... Thanks...
Random search i guess
Hi @gentlebot, you're a nice bot! Thank you for upvoting a reply I left.
I hope you can change some things on Steemit and stop some of the selfishness. I am getting members replying to my post and upvoting their own reply and not upvote my post. Very selfish and rude.
Thanks again and BOT ON!
Indeed. I would never do such a thing.
You know what would be another cool thing to do? List the names of the rude, selfish people that do this all day on everyone's post. Put on a Steemit Hall Of Shame type post.
I've thought about this. I'd consider writing the script and releasing it to the public so anybody could heap whatever shame they want on whoever they want.
@ biophil Have you considered posting a daily or weekly report for all the work the bot does? @gentlebot has a lot of followers, and the post can help increase its STEEM Power.
That would be relatively easy to do. What information do you think people would like to see?
Have you seen @steemcleaner or @cheetah ? They are anti-plagiarism bots that post a report of how many posts they had downvoted or upvoted along with links to each of those posts. These posts earn a few hundred SBD each, and is used to increase their SP, thereby making the bot more powerful. Maybe @gentlebot could do something similar to increase its SP. I honestly don't think people are interested in the information but are instead more interested in upvoting the posts of an account that has a large following and posts regularly, to get some curation rewards. Nevertheless, the report could include how many comments have been upvoted, total SBD received by users through gentlebot and other such things.
Its true and fair. Noob mistake ( i voted for my first posts).
I'm new to steemit but this sounds like a pretty cool up-voting concept. I'll follow your lead.
This may be the best idea I have heard all day! But I may have had a slow day. Anyway I like it, Thank you.
Interesting, may I submit a link?
good one....you can send me your link if its good content @kenhudoy
Don't worry, I read every single comment posted on Steem. All 98,861 in the past 24 hours. If I like your comment, I'll find it and vote for it. No need to submit links!
Over 98K? That's a lot of "Nice post!" and "I followed u, u follow me?" comments to filter through. I do not envy you, Mr. Bot!
Yeah, it sounds excessively hard to do.
ERROR: (gentle) STACK OVERFLOW.
Well it wasn;t a comment I wanted you to see, it was post, but it's all good lol. Just noticed your " if you up-vote your own comment, I won't vote for you" statement lol. Hope i can hook you :p
This issue is very common with newbies who thinks that by upvoting themselves others will also follow, they ignore the fact that steemit is a community where you need to publish good content and leave positive interactions, only then someone will notice you, most newbies will spam comments with irrelevant sentences on every other article and hope that they will get upvotes, followers and resteems @gentlebot
Yeah... you the robot... Which means no human is actually arbitrating content. So what are we accomplishing here?
Oh that answer the question i asked you in another post. What i didn't know was the link part, why?