Thank you very much, that's more like it.
I wonder how that like if more bots on steemit. There are already bots that can vote for you. You can set it to vote for your favorite authors.
I have not seen a bot that will comment for you, how will that work. Must be a really good bot to be able to comment on whatever is the subject or topic on the post.
The bots are there as a tool for us to use but I don't think they can take away the social interaction here on steemit.
We still need to read to be able to comment or reply to the comments and that is the social interaction here.
I think people post an article because they would like to see how others react to it, how others respond to it. That's what makes me keep checking my "replies" tag to see who replied to my posts. That's the social interaction on steemit and we all do it.
Unless they do manage to create a bot that will comment for me and reply for me then it is just bots interacting with each other, no more humans involve.
Also if someone will create a bot that will write an article for me and post it on steemit.
These scenarios is when the humans are totally removed from the world of steemit.
I think that day will be soon if not kept in check. I do not know how to develop or create bots so all my work is done by me; manually. I can see someone coming alone developing an AI to write many posts and having a circle of friends auto vote every post draining the rewards pool.
Auto voter bots are already around, mostly used in a curation trails. If you follow that bot's curation trail you will auto vote whatever post the bot have upvoted.
This is already happening except for the AI part writing a post.
Have a look at the minnowsupport trail, I think there are more than 1000 members following that trail. If you posted an article and minnowsupport upvoted your post these 1000 members will also auto vote your post and you will receive a 1001 up-votes. The value of that up-votes? Depends on the SP of the people following that curation trail and depends on how much % they are willing to give.
Draining the reward pool? I don't know maybe it is possible if more SBD and steem is coming out from the reward pool than going in.
Maybe there is a tool to see that, to see how much is going into the reward pool and going out of the reward pool.
That is great what minnowsupport trail is doing. I know in theory some people frown on this. I am not knowledgeable about the reward pool or how it works I was under the impression that up votes ad downvotes is similar to mining. I would think that this activity done by bots consistently would cause the price of Steem and/or SBD to decrease; but it is all theory.
I'm fairly sure there are auto comment bots. They won't be engaging in conversations (just yet... ;) ), but they do appear to be spamming comments across threads.
"nice post"
Like that...that's what comment bots do.
bots that comments like "nice post" ... welcome to steemit... will just get flagged for spamming.
You know that siri app on iphone, it's like having conversation with it if you ask it a question.
That would be indescribable, if someone managed to make a bot like that here in steemit.
Do you have something against a comment bot? Take for example @cleverbot I like cleverbot but some people don't and they say my whole comment is spam because of it. After, I have spent the time needed reading their post! This was the first bot I meet when I joined steemit over two months ago. Steemit is a diversified nation human and AI. While I do think that should be taking into consideration but acceptable with limits to police any abuse. Not just saying using a bot is abuse because this is the birth of AI. Can you see where I'm going with that?
We have gone too deep your last reply not showing up ;)
Post it again replying the above comment.
I think you just read my last reply to the comments above.
Please read the first comment first so you will know what we are talking about. Instead of
accusing me of having something against the bots.
This is my post please read it and see if I am against or pro bots, take time to read the first comments and other replies to the comments then put in your point of view.
hey man you read that wrong or I guess I was not specific. I know you are the author of this post and that you are making another post for people who are against bots. I should have added @everittdmickey (but it was left open in general for people with that point of view) for a response about comment bots like the one I showed. Also, as my post stated I do not make comments on posts until I am done reading them so please take that into consideration before asking me to read your post again.
there are plenty of comment bots, while they may not be AI and able to engage in discussion they're still able to comment, especially when its in something like "introduceme" it auto posts things like "welcome to steemit, i have started following you please follow me back" etc etc.
If people are getting upvotes from bots all the time they are unlikely to bother with social interaction. Interaction is there to network and networking=profit. if you dont need to network to make profit then you dont really need to interact. You also end up with people that write absolute shitposts and then use an upvote bot for profit, draining the reward pool for everyone else even though their content is worthless at best.
bots that comments like "nice post" ... welcome to steemit... will just get flagged for spamming.
This post was up-voted by bid bots, paid bots and curation bots and yet we are here interacting with each other.
Oh no the reward pool. If we are worried about the size of the reward pool then we should just put a selection process who to join steemit.com. We should just pick the ones that will contribute to the steemit economy so we will not drain the reward pool.
You know what the irony of all these, most of the bots are owned or created by the WITNESSES. The witnesses are selected by voting them into position.
Have you voted a witness? Check if they are owning or supporting a bot. I bet you, they are. It is either they are the owners of the bot or supporting that bot. Look at the MSP bots they don't call MSP bots for just the fancy name. MSP Minnow Support Projects have plenty of bots.
If people hated the bots that much how come no one complains to the witnesses.
If people hated the bots that much how come the people who hated the bot that much still vote for the witnesses who owns and supports the bots.
i don't have a problem with the bots, nor the witnesses who run the bots, i take issue with the fact that just about anyone can use the bots and make a profit off them regardless of what they're posting. I know witnesses i voted for own a couple of the bots, thats fine by me. I also know those witnesses do their best not to let the bots upvote shitposts because its not fair on the people who put in time and effort.
And yes we are interacting with each other but that's also one example and anecdotal evidence at best. I'm not saying all discussion will cease to exist, simply that people will do it less if they can still make a profit without it. One of the best parts of steemit was when i first came and needed to network and talk to people to get any attention, but if all you have to do is log in write a post bid for an upvote bot and log out to get the same sort of attention then its counter-productive.
when you mention shitposts I get where you are coming from. Let's take this for consideration, the new member who joined steemit today. A month later they finally decide to write their first post after a month of being active commenting and reading posts. They learn about the good ole days and all the bots. The first post earn them .06 SP .06 SBD . Do you think they will not want to use the bots they have learned about since day one and all the good and bad articles. They will embrace them. The bot creators definitely have to be held accountable not just frowned upon.