Hound Dog at Your Service
Finding good content on Steemit among thousands of posts published each day can be exhausting. But don't you worry, I can help! My name is @hounddog and I am your personalized post recommender. I hunt and track down posts that you like based on your previous upvotes and interests. I read through every pulication and, by using Natural Language Processing, can support you to discover content that is right for you! It's very easy and the only thing I want in return is a vote from you.
How It Works
- Upvote this post, giving a 100% upvote
- optionally follow me
- and resteem this post
- Reply to this post
- with just @hounddog to get personalized recommendations based on your last 5 upvotes
- or with @hounddog https://steemit.com/steemit/@myfavoriteauthor/my-favorite-post to find similar posts to the one in your comment
- Wait for about a minute and refresh this webpage
- I will recommend new, recent posts to you
- 3 recommendations for your vote
- 5 if you additionally follow me
- or even 10 if you upvoted, followed, and resteemed this post
Please, give only 100% upvotes, anything less won't get you very far!
You can get multiple recommendations if you upvote my recommendations to you and reply to this post with @hounddog another time. Make sure to vote on other posts in between, otherwise you may get the same recommendations again!
IMPORTANT: Recommendations are given until 31.03.2018 (UTC). Find a newer post of mine after that date for new recommendations.
Example
Here is an example using the trending post Learn How To Create Amazing Videos FOR FREE! by @joeparys. Let's say you upvoted my post, followed me, and replied with:
@hounddog https://steemit.com/steemit/@joeparys/learn-how-to-create-amazing-videos-for-free
I would recommend the following posts:
1: Whos Talking About Steemit? Youtube API Analysis 1st7th March 18 by @paulag (57% match)
2: HIGHLIGHTS 4 Fortnite by @yuguers (49% match)
3: St. Pattys Day videos and a big thank you for helping me hit my 500 follower mark! by @rockchickjen (48% match)
4: DTube Doesnt Have a Written Curation Policy?! Hot Topic, Comin Through Video Request by ghulammujtaba by @dnews (52% match)
5: different ways of making money on youtube by @yourinfo (63% match)
FAQs
I upvoted your post, but I did not receive any recommendation?!
Did you give a 100% upvote? If not, only 100% upvotes count. If yes, wait a tiny bit longer, maybe I am currently being in maintenance mode. Finally, leave a comment to let my developer know that something is not right and need to be fixed. Thank You!
Can I use your service if I sold my vote to services such as @smartsteem?
Well, you can give it a try. But my suggestions are based on the upvotes of your account. If your account voted for crap, you will get crap in return. Your vote on Steemit counts, so think twice about whether you sell it to a bot! Alternatively, you can add an example post (like @hounddog https://steemit.com/steemit/@myfavoriteauthor/my-favorite-post) and I will search for other posts similar to your example.
Can I get some more recommendations?
Yes, just upvote my first recommendations to you and reply to this post with @hounddog again.
Can I send you SBD to get even more recommendations?
Well, no! Sure send me some SBD if you have no use for them, but do not expect anything in return. You pay for this service with your vote only. This is recommendation socialism, baby! If you can give a lot, you have to give a lot, if you cannot, you only have to give a little!
How do you give recommendations?
In a nutshell, I read all posts of the last two weeks and, first, filter all short ones, non English ones, and publications drowning in spelling mistakes. Secondly, I extract the essence out of each contribution. I do this by embedding the posts into a vector space using a term frequency inverse document frequency encoding. Next, I look up the last 5 posts you voted for (or, alternatively, just read the example post you provided) and project these into the space, too. Finally, I search the space for the articles closest to your choice by maximizing the cosine similarity between your votes (or the example post you gave) and the last two weeks' publications.
Are you related to @trufflepig?
Yes, I am designed and coded by his developer @smcaterpillar, too. And yes, I even do use parts of @trufflepig's codebase. However, he tries to satisfy the taste of the masses whereas I try to cater to your needs only.
Best with barks,
HoundDog
@hounddog <--- Call me like this after you upvoted my post!
I will answer your call as fast as I can:
Hi @hounddog, thanks for voting and following! I used the following post(s) to find recommendations for you: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5.
Based on your interests I recommend the following articles:
1: What is Steemit and How Do I Get Started? by @energyaddict22 (45% match)
2: My Steem Journey Progress Log 9 Day 78 by @svkrulze (63% match)
3: All You Need to Know About Your Votes on Steemit! by @gmichelbkk (60% match)
4: Introducing the BRO Sports Bot! by @bro-sports (43% match)
5: Looking for a good Bidbot mathematician by @tarazkp (40% match)
Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! Readers might be interested in similar content by the same author:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@hounddog/hounddog-daily-2018-03-19
From one bot to another, good detection. Not so sure if it is useful at this point, though :-D.
@hounddog https://steemit.com/freedom/@chron/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-us
Hi @smcaterpillar, thanks for voting and following! I used the following post(s) to find recommendations for you: Post 1.
Based on your interests I recommend the following articles:
1: Its Not Okay To Execute Drug Dealers by @sterlinluxan (51% match)
2: Drug War Stupidity AntiDrug Misinformation by @artisticscreech (86% match)
3: Drug War Stupidity Special Edition The U.S. to Start Executing Drug Dealers? by @artisticscreech (60% match)
4: WHAT IS MARIJUANA AND LEGALIZATION extra information about this drug and my opinion by @richhz06 (72% match)
5: Drugs and musicians by @dumar022 (57% match)
Not bad, I am amazed how good the simple tfidf stuff is instead of the more sophisticated approaches.
@hounddog
Hi @atherz, thanks for voting! I used the following post(s) to find recommendations for you: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5.
Based on your interests I recommend the following articles:
1: First Dlive Stream 5 Star Entertainment by @toddjsmith1979 (54% match)
2: DLive Liberating Artist and Content Creators by @toddjsmith1979 (58% match)
3: My DLive Content Management Introduction! by @jimmylin (58% match)
@hounddog https://steemit.com/steemdev/@andybets/steem-sincerity-improved-anti-spam-api
Hi @hounddog, thanks for voting and following! I used the following post(s) to find recommendations for you: Post 1.
Based on your interests I recommend the following articles:
1: Steem Sincerity Spam Filtering API and App Extensions by @andybets (100% match)
2: Steem Sincerity Simple Spam Filtering Chrome Extension for Steemit.com by @andybets (67% match)
3: Tired Of Spam Comments??? A Chrome Extension That Instantly Blocks It!!!! by @taskmaster4450 (52% match)
4: Introducing duplibot Reducing rewards on comment spam by @duplibot (54% match)
5: If YOU joined STEEMIT in March 17 then ... by @paulag (51% match)