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RE: 4 Types of bots: Bid, Info, Curation, Community. (almost 5k followers!!!)
You left out the resteem bots. Similar to the vote bots, but they resteem instead of (or as well as in some cases) upvote. I think they form the potential for a very interesting solution to a common problem. Namely, that categories can't be followed in a feed, only people.
A resteem bot that was and, say, resteem-politics, and just auto resteemed every post with that as a first tag could then be followed to always follow political posts regardless of who made them. I'm about 75% done with such a bot, just have to shell out the cash to make a few sub-accounts and start testing it.
Figured I'd start small, a few high profile categories, and then move up from there through a few votes on which category to do next.
How do you plan on funding it? Will you post comments in the stuff you resteem?
That was my plan. For 2 reasons. Funding as well as unsubscribe. I don't want to be spammy, so I want to give them the options of:
Bravo, brilliant!
@cat.bot.steemit
First beta is in operation!
(That's also, the unsubscribe, the tricky part of coding g