Everybody are worrying about the centralization of voting power on steemit today, more than 90% of the active voting power are in the hands of 117 whales, 253 dolphins share 6% of the voting power, the total voting power of 5726 active users is less than 1%,see the picture below:
Time is precious , whales only have limit time to read a few posts and curate, some of the whales like @wang are using robots to vote the top authors only, most of the good posts were ignored, top authors are happy, but most of other authors are disappointed.
people rank@dan posted about , even thought about remove the curation rewards completely , @smooth thought it won't work, because whales will accept bribe to vote, @xiaohui and i talked about this a few days ago, and we thought maybe use robot to follow good curators will work, so we are working on our robot experiment recently.
Introducing Steemit to Nepal: The First Ever Steemit Meetup in Kathmandu 13th Aug. 2016. Steemit on Top of the World, Literally!!I talked about this with @isteemit yesterday, and i invited him to join our experiment, so i added his user name to the follow list. I will give you an example to explain how it works, this morning, @norbu posted this
he is not in the top author list, so @wang 's robot didn't vote for him, @smooth 's robot didn't vote for him as well, all of the other robots didn't vote for him, but @isteemit voted for him, because he is living in Nepal and he followed @norbu, after a few seconds, my robot voted for this post, because @isteemit is in the follow list, one hour later, a few whales noticed this post, voted, and 4 hours later, @dantheman voted it. No other robots voted it, most of the robots voting the top authors only.
Today, i added another good curator to my follow list, he is @nanzo-scoop , i found out he spend a lot of time reading posts, and wrote two articles about how to vote:
Curating for Profit - Tip #1: Make your objectives SMART!
Curating for Profit - Tip #2: Don't vote on posts that have been "WHALE BOMBED!"
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One of the best initiative I have encountered yet. This way of bot operation will have a big positive impact on the rewarding system on several fronts.
--> Great authors who are hidden under the shadows get more exposure.
--> Better reward for curators. Inviting more people to better curate.
Well done Laonie
Great authors who are hidden under the shadows get more exposure - agree with this. Frustrated users who create awesome content will eventually generate more revenue as time goes by.
How about bot which votes for post that already have many votes of minnows? Of course that strategy could be sybil atacked, but if your bot could differ with high probability real humans from puppet accounts it would be nice.
This is a good idea, i would like to try it too, thanks.
Thank you for this valuable input @everythink.
I'm working on that too.
According to this.. I WAS a top author up until last week when I lost the support of user @wang.
Even tho my content is till consistently highly praised by my peers... Anybody that can advise me on what happened will be much appreciated!!
Hi @laonie,
I cannot write to much now as my hands are full with other matters, however I did want to take the time to thank you for the endorsement and your patronage. I think this initiative is an excellent one. I will continue to try to curate good content.
More to follow at a later date...
Thank you very much for doing this for the community, I hope more whales will follow the good curators like you, it's better than to vote the VIP list only.
hey @nanzo-scoop i've noticed how you are one of the few big guys who upvotes me quite a bit... Just want to say thank you for the upvotes and enjoying my content. Hopefully I can get back up there in ranks as one of the "top authors" again..
Either way, thanks for the support
You deserve more than just my upvotes @mrwang. I make a point of following people beyond their introduceyourself post. You're consistently putting out quality content despite getting criminally small returns. I respect your grind.
Much appreciated @nanzo-scoop felt like I might have been losing everyones interest at one point. I just keep creating and posting whatever I feel like expressing at that moment. It's good to know I have caught some of you guys attention and not just a "bot" friendly upvote :) Gracias Homie
Also, is there somewhere we can submit our work to see if it is good enough for the 'bot' testing? Thanks.
@laonie May I ask what your robot is looking for when it is "crawling" for "Good Authors?" Do grammatical errors count? Followers? Comments and Replies in a Post? @streetstyle
I don't expect my robot to looking for Good authors, that's not wise, It's impossible to teach a robot to understand english, so how can a robot do that?
It's better to keep it simple, and rely on humans to do that kind of jobs.
My bad @laonie I misunderstood. Your bot users Curator info. to then make an up vote, yes?
I will looking for good curators by myself, read their posts, analyse his/her voting history, for example , if the curator is an expert on "photography", then my robot maybe only follow his votes on tag "photography".
It's impossible for a robot to identify whether a picture is beautiful or not , right?
Nice idea laonie. I already started working on a similar bot 2 or 3 weeks ago which doesn't work that bad. On steemit you can't win with quantity, but only with selected and smart actions. And so must be the bots.
i am active everyday ;) i don't mind taking that there voting power, no siree bob ! :P
this is a great idea. It will improve the ecosystem. thanks
hope this project will progress as you envisioned
This is an amazing attemot and study to see what happens. we are all watching as it unfolds.
The concept of adding these curators intrigues me. I wonder how it will unfold in the long term. Wish there was an easy solution, but when money is involved we all try to accomodate to that, as opposed to sharing heart content. I hope for a melding of both worlds
Whoa!! Great @laonie
Good luck with the project and looking forward to it.
Glad to see there are righteous bots out there
Two thumbs up laonie :) Making a difference, one vote at a time!
wow, thank you for share
Great!
我也想编个机器人玩玩了。
加油
哇！这个高大上啊👍
学习
interesting :)
Good luck to you! I invite you to my page
Great idea. I also thought about how to make a bot. Could you write a tutorial on how to create? All I knew it requires Python and special python-steem
ridiculous, voting robots should not exist, that's all !!!
不过没看出来这个机器人打算怎么玩啊？我说最近@laonie 没出声呢，原来在憋大招啊。
So, all good voting power-user uses robot to vote only toppers !!!
amazing :)
Hi, I have an idea for curation process. Please check my idea here.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@atomrigs/proposal-steem-power-rental-market
Good catch! The system isn't smooth and let it you for now. But if Steemit wants to develop to atract human-beings not robots it will be for a short time.
What if a curator has no tone topic but many?
For example a curator is commenting on 8 topics and ssems to be an expert in a few fields?
How wil you analize if he is good on the field at all?
I would highly recommend contacting @dragonslayer109. They pull out some really good content and do it consistently. Great initiative and I wish you the best with putting your SP to good use!
Thanks for the recommendation, i will check his curation records later.
I don't suppose you could drop by my post? It's getting buried because I haven't been posting much lately, but is very important for the Steemit platform: A simple and viable solution to down voting abuse: https://steemit.com/steemit/@johnsmith/how-to-solve-the-downvote-conundrum-with-one-simple-trick-upvoting-downvotes
I've just written this article concerning a flaw (as I see it) in the voting system and the solution I found. I'd be happy if you could read it and give me a feedback ;)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@glitterfart/the-flaw-of-the-current-voting-system-and-an-actual-solution
Hey Laonie! Just found out about this post. It's a great initiative and I am lucky to be a part of it. Your vision of creating a healthy Steemit community is invaluable.
I noticed you voted a few votes today, but my bots didn't follow.
The bot stopped working last night , because i ignored the hard fork, i fixed it this morning. :)
Oh! I didn't notice that. The last time I had checked, it worked well. Anyway, good thing that you fixed it :D
your suggestions are well intentioned. I hope that putting it to practice will be of benefit to the platform. and yes, as you said: frustrated good authors are likely to leave.
bless you @laonie, your every minnows' hero, thanks!
Laonie,
Even as a dolphin, I find it difficult to get my posts upvoted. https://steemit.com/life/@pairmike/are-you-a-slave-i-was-a-slave-to-the-american-dream-learn-how-i-escaped
That's a very good article, thanks for sharing, i found out my robot voted it already. :)
Thanks for voting for my article.
This will be fascinating. Keep us updated please!
Would you mind if i add you to the curator list too?
Hi Laonie, I managed to get a working bot that follows authors. It seems yours instead is following curators. Would you like to share any tip on how to do that?
You created a chain of goodness!
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