BOT MAKERS - Program Your Sh*t Better! You are Potentially Harming the Platform!!!

discombobulated (62) in steemit • 9 years ago (edited)

I just made a honey-pot post saying not to upvote... and yet I received a swarm of bots upvoting the worthless content due to the amount of formatting perhaps

Please refer to my post to see the problem:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@discombobulated/this-is-a-honey-pot-post-for-bahts-real-people-please-ignore

This is a follow up from @trogdor 's post here:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@trogdor/weenis-please-shut-down-your-swarm-of-bots

EDIT: My original suspicion was on formatting, but it could also be due to tag usage or "upvote whitelists"

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9 years ago by discombobulated (62)

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pharesim (74) · 9 years ago

The bots mostly don't earn anything, compared to the total payouts it's peanuts. It's up to the users. Any one of you can downvote (or report to #steemitabuse on https://steemit.chat) a spam post with a small payout to make it worthless. Nobody will keep running an unprofitable bot forever.

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discombobulated (62) · 9 years ago (edited)

Very true, I just worry that it will render the #hot tag essentially useless and possibly trick users into thinking something has a lot of attention when it may just be one person with an army of bots who like a post (or mis-upvoted a post).

EDIT: I know bots will be a healthy population of Steemit in the future. But posts like this one are meant to motivate bot-makers to be careful with how they make them.