Please keep in mind, I'm not commenting against your bot, specifically. I'm glad you are taking steps to try to make bots a bit better. They obviously aren't going away any time soon, and I appreciate that people taking positive steps within the bot world.
In general, I do think Steemit should discourage bots overall.
Below are some possible corrective ideas:
- Limit the total amount of SP that can be delegated by an account to some percentage (10, 25, 30%)
- Reduce the value of delegated SP in some way (1/2, 1/3, 1/20). i.e. Power in your hands is worth more than power loaned to someone else.
- Improve the discovery capabilities in Steemit. e.g. Call out highly-commented posts, call out 'rising stars', provide 'saved favorite posts', etc.
- Adjust the payout duration to reward longer lasting content instead of just more ephemeral content that requires immediate promotion.
- Compare and contrast why 'Promoted' posts are less effective than more complicated vote bots.
- Adjust the Promoted page to improve discovery and surfacing of promoted posts. e.g. Could Promoted posts be interspersed into Trending using a simple auction algorithm?
- Build out new features that mimic the capabilities that cause people to drift to Discord rooms. e.g. Communities, Favorites, etc
- Adjust payouts to better reward minnows. In many ways, the concept of a few whales acting as gatekeepers to content is also antithetical to Steemit's ideals as a decentralized blog. The core idea from my perspective is that hard-working and solid content creators can find the long-tail audience that supports them without the need for a dolphin or a whale to throw them a mercy upvote, for them to buy bid-bots, or for them to speculate their way into actual discovery.
thanks for these ideas.. its been a Long day so pls excuse me for not continuing this thread right now.. THANK U for your inputs!!!