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RE: Steem Robot Manifesto: The Rules of Botting
Reading the rule #1, I have to agree with you on that although @cheetah is sorta like a unicorn among the array of bots. I've seen authors downvoting cheetah, not the commenter nor the bot, just because Cheetah posted the original link of the blog that it detected from the internet..
@jasonmcz There are also those of us who will downvote cheetah when she gets it wrong as a way of signaling to the owner that attention is needed on that post. It's a courtesy for them that saves them getting a huge backlog of complaints.
@anyx if you ever see me flag @cheetah that's the only reason. I also upvote cheetah when she gets it right.
I've taken to flagging any bot that isn't contributing to the conversation and then putting it on mute so I don't have to see it again.
I personally am a big fan of cheetah! =)
Also great post, brings about great discussion points. so thanks.
I agree with @anyx on #rule 1 tho. A bot can (and maybe even should aspire to) provide value in other ways. Now also interesting to discuss is what we mean by 'value' maybe?
As for the last rule of subjectivity, it is interesting, cos especially some bots, as in the case of cheetah, are essentially an extension of their human's moral-values/drives/motivations.. the more the bots have a unique 'persona' the less generalized comments would get I think. people would make more targeted remarks, I'd suspect. I also agree with upvote/downvote being reserved for human interaction. Unless someone by some machine learning magic one day comes up with a smart-ass bot who actually has a taste and curiosity of it's own. =D