Cheetah has a direct cost of about $150-$200 USD per week, with an indirect cost even higher -- and rising
Can you explain where these direct costs are incurred? Can cheetah be designed to curate in a manor that is self-funding?
Cheetah has a direct cost of about $150-$200 USD per week, with an indirect cost even higher -- and rising
Can you explain where these direct costs are incurred? Can cheetah be designed to curate in a manor that is self-funding?
The direct cost is the web search api (custom search engine). Thousands (even tens of thousands) of searches per day racks up a huge bill.
The cost is funded by the @steemcleaners log posts. I'm not sure if there's a better way to do it, since if I ask people to vote for cheetah comments to directly fund her, they promptly forget a day later. :p
Humm. Are there any free or more cost effective custom search APIs? I know google does not offer theirs anymore but I have seen some workarounds - I am sure you know just where you lie on the landscape, just interested in similar bots myself.
I never knew custom search gets so expensive. Even google custom is pretty outrageous and limits 10k.
I am interested in finding some new funding methods for services like cheetah - she really does provide the best bot services on steem today.
Sadly no. I've looked. It is indeed outrageous. :(
Well the costs were news to me; I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for any sort of innovation on this front. Cheetah is my favorite bot here.
Well, I tend to give @cheetah an upvote when I encounter one of her comments... it's just a sort "community tip of the hat" thing for those who help run things behind the scenes. I guess I have just navigated too many oceans of spam to not appreciate the value she adds...
A regular analogy I use is the power being on. As humans, we take for granted whatever we are used to, and it doesn't cross our minds what it takes to keep things running the way they are -- 24/7.
But we certainly do notice when the lights go off, and THEN we ask where the maintenance men are.
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"Curate in a manor that is sell funding ". All kinda of light bulbs going off over here.
sell should be self - a typo :)
It is happening.
I don't really understand this. I use the steem power on cheetah to downvote spam/plagiarism, that does not earn a reward. Curating to self fund doesn't make sense? I could invest 100k steem in cheetah and curate to curate to turn a profit, but that's an investment producing a return, not a 'self funding' thing -- why not just invest it in my normal account and curate like I do already.
Perhaps you shouldn't be letting automation tell humans what they can and can't be doing. Seems to me that this is YOUR way of telling people what to do, If that is the case, then yes, you should fund it yourself.
Simply smacking the crowd with the same automated stick in hopes of hitting the right people is the wrong approach.