Lately I did see more and more people talking about the Ginabot, so it was time for a little investigation about it! It is as great as people were telling or is it just another bot!
To spare you 5 minutes of reading: Hell yes it is great! I am not using it for 2 weeks and already can't miss it!
What is the Ginabot?
Well the ginabot is a bot which sniffs the steem blockchain, digging up interesting information about what is happening. The best way to describe it is that it is a great notification bot!
Yes some of these notifications are also available via the busy.org frontend but it can do so much more.
I wrote that I did loose 2 big followers. How did I knew this, not because I am keeping track of the people who are following me. Gina just told me. Just like she tells me, when someone start to follow me, upvotes my post, downvotes my post, when I do get mentioned in a post and so on...
I could say that the list is endless but let's be honest it isn't!
The Ginabot is build by @neander-squirrel, which is also very responsive on the Gina Discord channel. If you have any questions, you can just ask. He or the community are always glad to help you out!
Great service!
How to set it up?
Well first you need to have an account on Discord. Once this is in place you can go to the Minnow Power Discord channel via this: https://discord.gg/gQesUE9
The first things you have to do it is to register your steem account.
For this you just type: ..reg
So for me this would be: ..reg fullcoverbetting
The bot will acknowledge this and will ask you to send 0.001 SBD or Steem to @ginabot.
Don't worry, once the registration is complete this amount is refunded!
Configuring the bot?
Once the registration is complete, the Ginabot will send you a private message via discord.
In one of these messages you will find a link, where you can configure the bot.
Clicking on the link, will bring you to your personal Ginabot setting page. Don't worry no steem Keys are required!
General Setting:
This one is simply. You can choose your preferred frontend: for me as you can see it is busy.org. You can choose out of 8 frontend. When you do click on a link of a post in a notification, you will be redirected to this page via the chosen frontend.
Basic
Here the magic starts :)
In Basic you can configure the following options:
- Comments: Does the Ginabot need to inform you if you wrote a comment or received a comment. Me personally I am only interested if I do receive a comment, I know when I wrote one.
- Transfer: Here you can configure if you transferred steem or SBD or received it.
- Delegation: Here you can set up, if you want to get a notification if someone decided to delegate some power to you or the way around if these changed the delegation.
- Rewards: In the next option you can ask Gina, to write a resume each day, week or month about your rewards. You can set it up for curation, author and producer (witness) rewards.
Extra
Here it gets really interesting!
Mentions
Do you want to know if somebody mentions you in a post or comment? Gina will take care if that.
Or are you interested if somebody mentions another Steem account in their posts. Nor problems, just add the name and Gina again will do all the work for you! As you can see, I did set it up so that I also am informed if somebody mentions our @sbcbot.
This feature is more powerful than you could think of. This way we discovered that a steem account will blindly stealing post from @cicbar! He did mention me in his post, and I was informed that I was mentioned again in a post from an unknown author to me!
It was a Gina notification which did trigger us!!!
Resteem
Were you lucky enough to get resteemed? Will Gina knows it and will let you know.
Follow
Don't we all want to know if somebody starts to follow us, or even if someone is tired of our shitty posts and decided to unfollow our beloved account!
Well you can configure this here!
Votes
Interest in getting information about the up or down votes your posts get? Well this is the place to be.
If you do get a lot of upvotes, I would advice not to use it. It will fire some many notifications that all the other information will get snowed under!
An upvote notification looks like this:
New posts
This can be vital for some. Do you want to get notified if your friends or favorite authors have created a new great post? Well configure it here.
I would not place to many accounts in here, otherwise the notifications will get crowded again!
As you can see, I only have 5 accounts, where I do want to get a notification about. The other I will find in my feed!
A notification looks like this:
In this section you can also blacklist people or set up a word watch. This last feature will give you notification each time an article or comment is written where this word is used. So be careful with it!
Maxi
The last section of the configuration panel.
You can add tags here. So each time an article is written with one of the specified tags, you can get a notification.
In this section there are also some setting which could be handy if you are a witness.
Conclusion
The ginabot is a great tool/bot/app. Whatever you want to call it. But use it smartly, by setting up to many notification it will ruin the user experience!
Are you also using the Ginabot?
Or are you going to use it?
If you find this articles interesting feel free to comment, upvote or even to resteem!
Keep the faith,
Peter
Are you receiving notifications on steemit.com (busy.org) or Discord?
You do receive the notifications via discord.
And can I only view the notifications within Discord?
As far as I know that is the only way!
I think I accidentally logged in via Discord using my master key. I'm not sure if I really did that or that I used my active key. But I guess I need to reset my master key now, just to be safe. Right?
I don’t understand where you did log in with your masterkey! If you have any doubts, it is probably best the change all the keys!
If I click on a link from Ginabot it opens in Discord. So I had to login in Discord to be able to reply. That's where I used a key to login.
That's a good question. I registered about 4 hours ago. But so far I didn't see any notification. I expect to receive them on Discord.
is it working now?
Yes it is working.
I have a notification for a new follower with 9k SP. So I figured lets check that account and just ask why it started following me. But it looks like it doesn't have any posts or comments, although it states it has one.
I really wonder why @smartsocial created a follow you follow me account with 9k SP in it?
Gina bot has really enhanced my steemit experience. It's all the notifications that should be an option with an official steemit app. Another tool that's super useful is @steem-plus, I use it as a Chrome extension, wasn't sure if you've heard of it but check em out if you haven't!
Thx for the heads up, I will check it out!
I've used Ginabot pretty much from Day 1 @fullcoverbetting. I'd be totally lost without it. When it has problems (usually associated with blockchain slow downs) and lags behind I end up missing loads of stuff.
I can't recommend it highy enough! 😊
This looks like something that is ge-ni-us!. So I am just trying it out. I am also very new to this whole thing and it looks like I'm gonna use the busy.org from now on.. It seems so much more.. clear.. And looks a lot like twitter.. 😂
I'm using also busy.org more often as I got used with the interface.
And it will pay of when the busy.org bot starts to hand out upvotes!
It already started.
It really is!
Keep on posting via busy but don’t forget to use the busy tag!
thanks for that tutorial, that was helpful. Any idea as to why notifications aren't built into steemit.com itself?
Nope, no idea! There are doing some changes lately but I guess that notifications will not be included!
I always use busy which has a lot more advantages. If you have a decent number of followers and use the busy tag as one of the 5 tags they even give you a free upvote!
If you want the referral link, t me know 😂.
Or you can just go to busy.org 😁
alright good to know. thank you
This looks like a great bot. I'm off to check it out. Thanks for the Post.
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