Low Esteem Bots!
The Bots Are As Thick As Flies Around A Pile Of Fresh Shit
I think the best way to deal with this problem is mute the spammers and annoying bots. They will not be able to grow their reputation and eventually will leave from lack of growth. It saves my peace of mind using this method, I am not angry or full of revenge, just resigned to the way the world works. Many people come on Steemit looking to make a little money but do not have any content or skills in this digital world that sells or interest people. That is something that should be stated when selling Steemit to the general public. You need to produce quality content that will interest other people. Many people come from cultures that are not like ours and begging is part of how they function in their society. I don't get angry, I just get annoyed because this behavior along with spamming gets in my way of finding quality content I can promote and grow for the Steemit community.
I checked my wallet the other day and someone has sent me .0001 SBD telling me this is the last day to join their free Steem or SBD giveaway, contest or Birthday, what ever. I let this slide for a while but now, along with the resteem bots, upvote/down vote bots, buy vote bots, I am getting annoyed. So now when a bot post something on my comment section or sends me 0.0001 SBD I just mute them.
In the beginning of my Steemit journey back in September of 2016 I followed everyone who followed me. However after Steem hit $2.00 and we had thousands of people join I deleted all the people I followed except for those I had interactions with, my stream was too overwhelming to curate. But my home stream became limited and stale, so I added a 1300 of my followers and my home stream turned into a resteem stream. I started muting anyone who has more resteems than articles, I felt as if I was being buzzed by a bunch of flies.
As I was muting a dozen resteem bots yesterday I had an idea for a painting. I painted my mental condition regarding the influx of bots here on steemit. I don't know how the bots will be integrated here on Steemit. I like some of them, like putting my favorites and promising up and coming Steemians on an upvote bot and Cheetah Bot catching plagiarizers. However the upvote bots I use never filled up someone's comment section with automated, "I upvoted your $," by so and so bot before. That is also annoying. The resteem bots are making it difficult for me to curate my stream, not anymore! They are all muted now.
I feel a lot better after I finished this piece of art. It is true, art is good therapy! My husband suggested I fashion some of my bots after the Steven Spielberg movie, "Batteries Not Included," which I did. I took the classic cartoon of a woman screaming as my mind screaming at overwhelming data from the resteem bots. The resteem bots are my idea, those irritating flies that try and land on you all the time and won't leave you alone until you leave or squash them!
You can buy this piece for $70.00 of SBD, Steem, or (BTC address 14qczv4rtGiNjRagCN1doJk5WM21MmMZ4y). This price includes shipping without matting or frame
Hope your week is productive Steemians!
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Sick painting.
Dude, I have got to give you credit for diligence! Have the downvote bots left you alone now?
Yeah its been like 2-3 months sense that person has hit me. hopefully all that crap is done with.
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hahaha, I feel so good....hahaha, you are in the + now, congratulations!
Thank you.
:D
Are you going to sell the original?
HEY...GOOD IDEA! yes I will put a price under this one.
or maybe make an auction post and have people bid on it.
:D
I am too scared to auction my stuff, no one would show up and I would get all embarrassed. I will have to wait until I get famous ....hahaha <3
oh I just seen the price in the post. that's badass.
:D
How many copies do you have of that painting? Can we get more than one copy?
I'll have to make prints, I'll do some research, I joined a POD site for printing art, you can buy posterframes and or matting as well....I'll give you an answer this evening 6am here in Tulsa Oklahoma.
Here is a link to my Print On Demand Gallery.
Muting is a good idea for the schemers, players, circle jerkers, and reward-pool rapists as well. Spam and silly little bots may be annoying, but perhaps we shouldn't let them divert all attention away from the worse things going on.
This was kinda of a silly post but also in a way serious regarding the automation of human interaction. There are serious issue like lack of nodes but I am not in that category of people. I will vote for witness that get more nodes up and running but that's all I can do....
hahahahaha i love randowhale hahahaha :D :D
I seen your love affair with that bot in your comment section...hmmmm ....hahahaha
hahhahahhahaha :D Mom now they arent voting comments :P :/ i died :D
@hassanabid, your posts need content that will attract votes. As a Mom, I am motivated to see you become successful.
i have tried everything bestest photographies of nature but u know majority will look upon post having good SP they always do comments upvotes to get upvotes on comment !
That is why you should spend 80% of your time commenting on others post and engaging, it will grow your rep number...20% should be given to improving blogging skills, writing, your photos right now.
https://steemit.com/photography/@hassanabid/shangrilla-a-beautiful-place-best-photo-ever like this one i do believe this photography deserve many but no one cares !
you need to join contest if you think your content is worthy of more upvotes, you have to visit support groups on discord or steemchat.
Turn that lovely photo into a story, tell me about this beautiful place, the names of the mountains, I want to know your culture and who you are. For me as an American you come from am exotic place, which I will never be able to visit. Make me feel as If I am there.
who said you cant come here my uncle lives in America and you are most Welcome to Pakistan i will be taking 100% of your safety ! :)
About time someone came up with a post on this topic. The other day, someone said to me 'quality doesn't matter much here on Steemit' and that's mainly because of the bots and spammers here. Because they keep corrupting everything, it is hard for quality work to gain recognition. I have some trouble mingling with people. I love to socialize but I don't want people to think that I am socializing just to get their upvotes or favors from them because that is not my style so I take a lot of caution in interacting with people cos I don't want to perceive my gesture as something else. I am quite open when expressing my joy about something I like but I feel that when I praise someone too much, he/ she may think that I am doing it just to get their upvote. Anyhow, got a little side-tracked. Thank you for bringing up this topic and the idea for the poster is quite amusing! :D
I worry that all the spammers and bots will put people off interacting and encouraging minnows. This post was kinda silly but also serious regarding automating processes and dropping human interaction.
A very insightful perspective. I haven't been on stem for very long and thought bots were normally accepted do in part of the free money. Yet after one full month I simply earned pennies on the dollar and never read good content here. I may take a similar step as you did and try not turning myself into a bot, lol.
I automate my voting for certain steemians I like since I joined and promising new steemians I am trying to encourage to continue and grow their skill sets. I leave some of my SP power for delegating to creativebot part of the PAL network, so I am not against bots. With my curating I try and comment of the blogs I autovoted and I look for minnows that are interesting or trying really hard to make a presence here on steemit. That's on top of the 4-8 hours a day I spend working on my art.
This is really awesome - love it ! What better way to handle this frustration:) you are not alone I am sure. I had one bot spam me with cat facts. I really hated it, but I guess it's not the worst I've met.. tip! 0.5
I've always used art to process life, thank you @dandesign86!
Hi @reddust you make me smile of your journey by caching flies on steemit. Well its realy bull shit with this resteeming and messages with 0.001..., lots fake acc out now whos promoting theyr spam.. I following only what i realy like to know about steemit, so i taking only wittnes news. Great memme you draw i like this style, it looks like from animation movie :) did you working this something like that?
I made up the design myself, the female image idea is taken from poster art used in horror stories and movies advertising during the 1950s.
Batteries not included!! I haven't heard that title in a long time, I loved that movie.
I'm with you completely on this. I hadn't thought about using the mute button, but that does sound like a great solution. I've been ignoring them for the most part, and it seems like I only flag them on other people's posts, it's my nature to defend others and I've always had a harder time defending myself so I guess it makes sense. But yeah, muting :)
I was too busy to watch that movie when it came out. I am will be watching Batteries Not Included tonight! hahaha
Spammers are going crazy, I think it's the effect of electromagnetic solar winds caused by sunspots...:P
My Buddhist teachers taught me well ;-)
nice painting. You will get a buyer for this soon I am sure.. good luck
you are correct too much bots on these days on steemit. Some are good specially for beginners to promote their content. But now a days it's too much.
Cheers!
There are good bots...ohhhhh, another idea for a painting, good bots😇