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 3 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 04.04.2018 (UTC). Find a newer post of mine after that date for new recommendations.
Example
Here is an example using the trending post Steem Witness Forum: @andrarchy, @roelandp, @clayop, @aggroed, @klye, @lukestokes, @drakos by @aggroed. Let's say you upvoted my post, followed me, and replied with:
@hounddog https://steemit.com/steemit/@aggroed/steem-witness-forum-andrarchy-roelandp-clayop-aggroed-klye-lukestokes-drakos
I would recommend the following posts:
1: Suggestion Improved Witness Voting Page for Steemit.com by @ura-soul (54% match)
2: Does the Fact That The Witness Voting Page Only Shows 50 Witnesses Effect The Voting Outcome? An Analysis Of The Spread of Witness Votes. by @ura-soul (59% match)
3: Is The Voting System For Steem Witnesses Unbalanced Unfairly SkewedBiased? Simple Improvements Might Make a Big Difference Here. by @ura-soul (52% match)
4: How and Why to make ShadowBot your Witness Voting Proxy! Pro Tips by @bigdeej (54% match)
5: Witness Update A sample of my upcoming expose on potential witness rank gaming and my response to my nomination by another witness, guiltyparties for the Witnessblocks challenge by @sircork (58% 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 3 posts you voted for with at least 25% voting weight (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.
Based on your interests I recommend the following articles:
1: Why You Need To Use SmartSteem by @jrswab (46% match)
2: Steem can land you in jail and its not FUD by @svkrulze (73% match)
3: Understanding Steem Economy, Its Currencies, and The Reward Distribution System! by @ilyastarar (40% match)
4: 2011 BACKYARD TRELLIS, PERIMETER, VOLUNTEER by @phedizzle (41% match)
5: Black Thumb Chronicles Propagating Experiments Basil, Carrots, Rosemary Mint by @bearone (49% match)
@hounddog search: differential equations and valentines day
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: **How the world works. Rise above it. ** by @ogoowinner (12% match)
2: Teaching of differential equations University Teaching by @carlos84 (100% match)
3: Main Reasons Why You Are Unable to Save AllYear Round by @smaeunabs (13% match)
4: Maynards of Tool Wine in Jerome, AZ by @mickeybeaves (12% match)
5: Solve mathematical equations for students in an easy and free way by @aherbil (33% match)
@hounddog
Hi @smcaterpillar, thanks for voting and following! I used the following post(s) to find recommendations for you: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3.
Based on your interests I recommend the following articles:
1: Why You Need To Use SmartSteem by @jrswab (65% match)
2: Understanding Steem Economy, Its Currencies, and The Reward Distribution System! by @ilyastarar (58% match)
3: A Radical Idea to a Malignant Problem by @jasonshick (64% match)
4: **tipU Voting Service Updates Higher Max Upvotes For New and Interesting Posts ** by @tipu (100% match)
5: Upvote Bots 2 Our hated best friends by @gabeboy (61% match)
@hounddog https://steemit.com/education/@carlos84/teaching-of-differential-equations-university-teaching
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: Teaching in a private institution by @teachblogger (25% match)
2: Teaching is an art an experience by @teukumukhlis (21% match)
3: Recommendations by an English teacher! by @teachblogger (23% match)
4: I Cant Study, So Im Definitely Going To Fail... by @alvinauh (28% match)
5: An Uneasy Lunch Teaching Students To Start Posting On Steemit by @alvinauh (20% match)
@hounddog search: seals penguins sea lions Antarctica ice
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: Exploring Antarctica via SUP by @mtnsurfps (60% match)
2: An Explorer Left His Camera Behind And Two Antarctica Penguins Pose And Take Selfies by @joseph (82% match)
3: Cuverville Island Glaciers by @thomasjmitchell (55% match)
4: Who is watching who? by @thomasjmitchell (49% match)
5: Penguins! by @bwar (86% match)
@hounddog search: “Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. [...]
"But we have also," continued the management consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship's peanut." [...]
"So in order to obviate this problem," he continued, "and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and...er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances.” - Douglas Adams
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: Bitter Leaf The Self Sufficient Medicine by @ijele (52% match)
2: Keep your eye on the prize A juicy Green Leaf Colorchallenge Thursdaygreen by @bmj (24% match)
3: Although giraffes are the worlds tallest animals, they are very peaceful and harmless animals.last part by @sharif24 (21% match)
4: **The Art Of Nature ** by @jejes (46% match)
5: Animals photography macro LeafDestructive Fly by @humaidi (33% match)