What is @buildawhale
@buildawhale was founded to offer promotion services to Steem users to promote quality content produced by Steem users.
My goal was to allow users to gain exposure and followers by getting the attention of others not create a cash machine where you put $10 in and get $20 out regardless of what you submit.
Curation Digest
The way I tried to do this is to reward quality content with our daily Curation Digest where we look through all the posts submitted to our service and choose our five favorite posts to feature daily.
Being featured in our Curation Digest has a proven effect of increased organic votes, increased followers, and more engagement. It also allows us to introduce users to new authors they may never heard of.
Spam Prevention
When I first started @buildawhale, I wanted to offer the ability to promote quality content and not reward low effort and stolen content.
In the past, I frequently submitted authors who plagiarized to https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/ anonymously and in private to @patrice.
Bid Bots are continously blamed for the amount of spam and garbage being rewarded on this platform. There is endless amount of stolen and low effort content being highly rewarded without the use of bid bots and I spend a lot of time proactively identifying and shutting down spam and plagiarism.
In multiple cases I have spent 5-10 hours to uncover all the accounts tied to one user spamming across multiple accounts regardless if they take advantage of my service, another service, delegation, or private Steem power.
This activity is unrewarded and counter productive to running a promotion service as spammers are the best customers a bid bot can have. When was the last time you heard of a bid bot ban a spammer?
Blacklist
If you haven't heard of our blacklist you haven't been paying attention.
As I said above, I put countless hours into identifying and preventing rewards on plagiarism, spam, scams, abuse, and fraud. This is an endless, thankless, and unrewarding job, in fact it costs me money as my service makes less than bots who don't blacklist users.
You can see our current blacklist with over 1,000 users I have personally identified and verifed by hand.
Prevote Club
@buildawhale has a prevote club that offers additional votes to users who use our service. We currently have around 40-50 accounts in the Prevote club offering guaranteed curation rewards to members and additional value to our users.
Terms of Service
We have not posted our terms of service in some time as Steem has no good way to pin posts or have a more detailed description available without searching through hundreds of posts.
Our terms of use are simple.
We will not reward plagiarism, and if found plagarising you will be blacklisted and potentially lose your vote.
If you are caught spamming, you will be blacklisted and potentially lose your votes.
If you are caught scamming or committing fraud, you will be blacklisted and potentially lose your votes.
If you are blacklisted, you will not receive a refund.
If there was a mistake on our part and you have been blacklisted, we will refund and make things right.
If you have a question about our service, blacklist, or want to report abuse please reach us on Discord and do not post comments on our posts or @themarkymark's posts.
buuldawhale is a great project however there are some are taking advantages of this great tools in my opinion its a way to make the blog more visible than just making money. Great post @buildawhale
Explain how placing $20 beside a post makes it more visible. Why do people think that helps?
If I put $20 beside my post, it blends in with all of the others who put $20 beside their posts. That might as well be $0. The same thing happens to the people placing $50 beside their posts. They blend in. That might as well be $0 as well. Since $20 can easily be the new ZERO, all this is doing is driving the VALUE of a vote down. The votes are meaningless, value has no value, and this can contribute to the value of the token dropping. That's what people are paying for. Less money down the road.
Also, this visibility nonsense again. Each time someone delegates away their SP, we lose two more eyes. Thousands of eyes are converted into one paid vote. People are spending money for votes because they think it will help them be seen, yet they are paying people so they can look away when they buy the vote.
So please, explain this visibility stuff to me in a way that doesn't sound like cheap marketing.
This post is an advertisement and it's sitting on the goddamn trending page. This post, along with all of the other advertisements here push down the regular content, so again, please explain how this is helping make things more visible.
Yeah, because at the moment, the trending page is basically this:
Don't get me wrong here, I mean, Dr. Michael Ho seems like a pretty cool guy and I'm sure his little electric shock massage device feels good; but I can't see how his show would be receiving higher ratings than an episode of The Walking Dead or Saturday Night Live. When I watch TV, I noticed how the commercials aren't on the guide when I look for something to watch. I see regularly scheduled programming in a list, no ads.
I wonder why they do it that way. Wouldn't it make more sense to show the ads on that list instead? Seems to be working here, so why don't they do that everywhere else?
I guess what we forget is that relative to other media, even the much-derided 'old media' of TV, steemit is a tiny player - kind of the equivalent of a community radio station or local public-access TV channel. What 'works' for a network with 60,000 active logins per day might not be the same for a TV show with 6,000,000 viewers or a network with 1400,000,000 daily active users.
And while we are on the topic of 'promotion', can we please stop pretending that any of this would be considered effective advertising out in the wider world. The Nickelodeon's 2018 Kids' Choice Awards has, according to Neilsen, generated 7,953,000 interactions - now that's promotion!
On a more personal, and somewhat conciliatory note, it's also true that who sees your stuff is at least as important as how many views you get. I've done two media interviews (one with a News Corp owned publication), and there's the possibility of a third, largely on the basis of publishing opinion-pieces on a site that has about 10% of steemit's traffic.
This place will shine brighter once they start detecting these bots and placing the ads on the promoted page, where they belong.
Right now, as of this writing, we have four posts on the trending page that all talk about scams. Three of these posts were published by bot owners.
So the promoters are basically promoting how scamming the place seems, because of their services.
I read comments and I see sycophants praising this nonsense.
Cable access channels with their tiny audiences of a town of 30000 still put their infomercials in the weaker time slots.
I'm baffled.
Bid bots were very useful for the exposure esp to the minnows who have worth reading articles but some or may I say many users also were abusing this opportunity. This move of @buildawhale will somehow filter the abusive ones and blacklisted them. Thumbs up!
Too bad the other 90% of bots don't give a shit.
thanks @buildawhale for your great support
We need few more bid bots like @buildawhale !
Buildwhale is a great project i thought
It's a great service. Thank you.
Wow this is amazing. Yes, this will really reduce the rate of plagiarism here. Wow I love this.😊😊😊😊
Weldone boss @buildawhale You sure are doing an amazing work here
@themarkymark has one of my witness votes, so I really mean it when I say that I think he's doing more than most to fight spam and plagiarism.
However, even if all bots were run as well as @buildawhale, I'm not convinced the trending page would be any better. (I mean, it's not even the worst it's been at the moment, but it's not fantastic.) Does the organic advantage of being curated override the paying customers with plenty of money to spend? No, and it would ruin your business model if it did.
All that said, it would be great if everyone at least tried to do their part. And I don't want to hear anyone with a shitload of SP at their disposal (bot operators or not) whining about how it's not their responsibility. Guess what, if you have the capability to change something, then it is your responsibility, one way or the other.
Oh, trust me, it would be a lot BETTER. Maybe not good, but BETTER.
Is there any process set up for people to rewarded for identifying plagiarists, spammers etc?
If people were incentivized to report accounts that were 'dodgy', self policing would become much more efficient.
(1sbd, or something - for highlighting accounts)
I spend a lot of time on steemit everyday, and would happily help search accounts - if it was not 'a thankless task', as you say.
A potentially profitable task would help persuade everyone chip in...
feel free to hire me! lol.
I like the idea of self policing, although it's hard to determine where the reward comes from, some neutral source that does not have its own agenda to promote. Maybe each account contributes to the pool to gain from it's benefit. Socialism?
https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/
There is the link for the form to fill out, if they find the abuse legit they give you a small stipend, I don't recall the amount, I tried to find the article where I read about it a couple weeks ago. I'll keep a eye out and see if I can find it but if you click on articles about abuse usually someone mentions it.
Setting aside some of the reward pool for abuse combating would require some kind of fork. Anything else would have to be organized organically, and the money would have to come from somewhere...
and then abuse reporting would be abused ;)
I think this is a great idea! I understand some of the concerns in the comments, but I also think they are seeing a symptom of the disease while you are treating the cause. I see where some could be concerned, but I see @themarkymark's work and know his mission. I believe this project will work in concert with his efforts will help pull weeds from the Steem garden so the juicy fruit can grow. It will attract the same people already using bot services, but anyone with half a heart or brain would hopefully opt for the better path and choose @buildawhale. Not only reducing the base of other bot users, buildawhale also promotes posts that deserve a good size upvote. I trust the team behind buildawhale to select worthy material because of their previous crusades. Hopefully these will be the posts in trending, not spammy adverts. Who knows, we need to do something about it, some decision is better than none, and this is certainly the best idea or step I've heard of yet. More power to you, thinking of joining myself! 😂👍
Plagiarism is in everywhere, in editing or in thinking. Morality only can prevent this. However, your support is great . And hope for keep up.
If you want,Please follow me.
Your initiative to counter plagiarism and low content promotion is commendable. Yes, low quality content creator can use bidbots to gain much without hard work but bidbots must realize that without making steem platform clean of garbage, we can not make this platform a rewarding platform for everyone. Thanks.
akdx@ Very good point
I am agree with you
I like your comment.
your information is very helpful
thanks for sharing
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Whale attack on crypto market is going on
yes i think so too, eos has over 7 mio in ETH, they will kill it soon :)
Thank you for sharing :)
useful information and I like to follow it. thank you @buildawhale
Great information, thanks for sharing man
Thank @buildawhale ,useful information to keep in mind as a newbie to the platform.
Thank God, spams and plagiarism will be lessen. Thank you dear that helps the steem community a lot.
Sorry I m new on steemit...
sounds good but how to propose an article? only in English I suppose :D
here a blog post: https://steemit.com/blockchain/@swissbtc/i-ll-eat-my-tbd-if-you-are-not-able-to-double-your-crs-until-mid-june.
let me know
Thanks for your information
I can see you are really doing a great job @buildawhale. Thank you very much.
Thanks @buildawhale
The mission is nice but how would you be able to focus on the plankton because some minnows don't need the promotion as stated
Some of us with little or no sp value
Would love it..... I stand with buildawhale.... Thanks for the grate support about to hit the community
Write and create awesome content, @acidyo has a great curation project @ocd that features content all over Steem not just @buildawhale users.
How do I get @acidyo to find me and @ocd
I means what tag
there is the #ocdsteem tag but I believe you can only use it once a month.
@ocd curators find you as they surf around the platform for quality content.
I think it's #ocd-resteem with a hyphen.
Thanks for the information!
nice article @buildwhale , grate job
Thank you @buildawhale for these information
It will be good for quality content writers
added new info to my resources
Wow amazing
You post very good
thank you @buildawhale, interesting content and can we capture, interesting information and enter the mind
Thanks for sharing such a great information
Thanks for sharing this very great and very useful tools to us.. It is very important to make some exposure to every steemians... Good job @buildawhale...
Excellent project! Thank you!
We can take out a good learn from your blog.
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Nice one @buildawhale great to know that some bid bots are pushing the boundaries of being a good responsible bot for the community!! Well done future will improve this further!! Does anyone else read bluewhale rather than build lol? I keep doing it!
Hi, I like it, but I don´t understood how I can participate
Thank you very much for your post. you have informed us in this regard. I am waiting for your support in the last posting.
good luck luck )))))
That good information for me thank @buildawhale i Will vote and Resteem this post
Congratulations @buildawhale!
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great idea. keep it up!
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Hello, i want this service
Indeed, Hopefully, more bots will adopt these same policies.
@buildawhel I am interested in your services can I be a part of these ?
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