I think people need to read, or re-read the FAQ Page to Cheetah bot. Cheetah bot does not flag,(down vote) it upvotes. Real people do the cleaning/down voting.
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I think people need to read, or re-read the FAQ Page to Cheetah bot. Cheetah bot does not flag,(down vote) it upvotes. Real people do the cleaning/down voting.
Yeah, it just leaves a bad connotation in users and even worse, non-Steemit users minds by being named "cheetah". But it or real people behind the handle do downvotes with it as you can see here https://steemd.com/@cheetah
I have seen the downvotes not well earned, in fact it seems to be going on right now if you would have checked one of the links I put in a comment. Also, "so what" is directly because someone claimed the bot does not downvote. I respect your opinions on the matter but I do not agree with them, especially with a bunch of conjecture that we do not have the ability to create analytics to look at, specifically users not joining Steemit based on broken operations coming from a robot that is supposedly from a site based on actual users votes being the thing that makes the difference.
Don't get me wrong. I am not trying to penalize anyone. I said I like the bot I didn't say I didn't like the author. I like the content but I like it even more when I know where the source was copied from. the bot gives us a URL where we can see the content verbatim sometimes. Then decide if it was appropriate. Then I make up my mind to vote or not vote.
Then it should be called "Helpful Bot" or something with a positive feel if it is being helpful than called "cheetah" putting the word cheater in our mind and showing a duplicate link, no matter how cute the cat picture is.
It's cheetah not cheater. Cheetah that hunts down sources.
This is the first time I have read it referenced like that after being here a year lol, very clever, definitely needs a re-branding.
I see the bot penalizing this user https://steemit.com/drawing/@elenasteem/a-small-xenomorph-resumes multiple times currently, which if it is doing it because the person is not a human or plagiarizing, then that should be in the comments. Otherwise I have seen this user sharing genuine content and been pinged a lot by the bot. So in this case right now the bot has determined for us that this user is on a blacklist, it does not identify to the rest of us users why this is the case, and then for the user in question, they are now required to go into an off-blockchain chat to appease a robot or an unknown person to them behind it. I do not claim to have the answers on a better way to know this isn't the right way.