Last time I did a thread about my followers, I invited everyone to hop in and tell everyone about yourself.
That's still an open offer, and this time I'm starting a new challenge.
It's called the "Name In Lights" challenge.
I challenge you to pick one of the people following you and feature them in your blog with the #nameinlights at least once a week!
For my part, exactly 4 weeks ago today I had 80 followers.
Last night I went to bed with 256 followers and thought to myself, you know 250 people is good place to welcome everyone one again. Then this morning I woke up with 260 and as I'm writing this, it went to 263.
On average, this works out to about 6 new followers a day
I'm thankful for every person who does follow me.
You remind me I have a voice and that there are people who want to listen to what I have to say.
My goal is to get to know everyone who follows me because I don't just want followers.
I want to turn the "followers list", into a list full of people I could go to a pub have a drink with.
So this is my project going forward. Starting with those who have been following me the longest.
Each week I will be featuring my followers.
I'm going to read each of your blogs, take notes and learn what I can about you.
If possible I'm also going to hop in, comment and upvote etc.
Any SBD raised from this profiling effort will go 100% to the person being profiled.
There are several of you I know pretty well, including more than a handful of you IRL.
But the bulk of you, I have no idea about!
I'm excited to know who each of you are and frankly I'd like all of you to get to know each other too!
So to everyone who has followed me this far...
Please make sure to introduce yourself and tell us about your favorite steemians below!
Hi @williambanks , thanks for the discussion in the comments on Sunday on my article. I see the discussion is still going here and there :). I will go to @stan's post to help and support now :)
If you have not seen this, I think you will enjoy... Carte Blanch is a South African investigative reporting television program. They normally have some boring stuff, mostly focusing on how the government is screwing us over... However sometimes they cover very interesting subjects... which I assume you will enjoy if I got the gist of your message ...
http://carteblanche.dstv.com/player/1108474/
PS : Love the idea and concept about @nameinlights, would love to assist where I can
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Ok so I watched the video.
What they are describing is also known as TTM or Targeted Temperature Management.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_temperature_management
It works extremely well for the short term. The real trick here is to make sure that freezing people doesn't result in severe cell damage, because ice crystals are sharp and will rupture cell walls.
Assuming that can be overcome, i.e. you get cold but not frozen, what happens is the cold reduces the need for the body to process oxygen.
Because everything about chemistry is slowed down by the cold and you are made of chemistry.
Some animals do this naturally and even replace their blood with antifreeze naturally in order to survive the winter.
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/21/how-the-alaska-wood-frog-survives-being-frozen/
http://www.livescience.com/824-cold-hard-fact-fish-antifreeze-produced-pancreas.html
Excellent find! And yes it's a common tactic now in major blood loss, trauma situations, to reduce the patient's body temperature in order to slow down the damage from oxygen deprivation.
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Thanks for this!
#nameinlights Just find a follower who has less followers than you and introduce them to your other followers.
Also, yeah @stan and I will argue about this until the cows come home. I have a suspicion we're both wrong. I'm going to post a story on Sunday.
Short term though, this one could really use more attention...
https://steemit.com/news/@williambanks/riseup-net-needs-your-help
If you could help spread the word, I'd be much obliged.
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#nameinlights brilliant idea. I will execute on this from tomorrow actually :) This will really help the platform. Are you looking at featuring the follower as in he writes an article and you publish it on your account Like "Article ABC (Featuring Follower 123)" I will do this daily in future :) It makes a lot of sense. By the way ... did you create the image for #nameinlights ? if so, would you mind if I use it in my featuring followers article? I will obviously credit and refer to your article...
Secondly, from @stan perspective. I loved his post, but get your points as well.. Only one thing to say:
We will only know when we die...
Already voted for rise-up and will send introduce and circulate to my network.
Finally did you have a chance to watch the video and what do you think?
I am not a specialist in the medical field, but very logical person...and I think this can be massive for saving patients in future.
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Well @jacor I think the "read my blog featuring..." has been done to death.
When I envision #nameinlights what I really think of is similar to what I've been doing here....
Something like
In otherwords, just make it totally about them.
As for the image, I lifted it from pixabay so feel free to use it.
I didn't have a chance to watch the video. I'm traveling and tethered to my cellphone. But I will check it out tonight when I get somewhere with proper internet.
As for the debate with @stan yeah that's the sort of thing we'll be discussing until the end of time I'm sure. No way to know until we get there. But I'll do a blog post on Sunday that I think more clearly shows my POV on that subject.
Thanks for upvoting and sharing the riseup thing with your followers, they really need our help or they will be forced to cease operations at month's end.
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Agreed on the approach on the #nameinlights. Will start tomorrow as it will certainly have an impact in the long run at identifying good and diverse content based on recommendation.
Eagerly awaiting your Sunday post... I also have another one in mind for Sunday.
My article about the video will be going on in the next 30 minutes or so. I am actually referring to you a lot in the article, as this article was inspired by our conversation on Sunday and in my mind directly linked to the conversation. At the same time I am asking my followers to consider following you :)
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Wrong about what ?
(NAP Litigator *Fee .0001 SBD) lol ...
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@jacor started it with "I enjoy debates". Then @stan made a blog topic about giving god the finger so I invited him in as well. It was fun.
https://steemit.com/religion/@jacor/why-does-god-create-or-make-people-to-go-to-hell
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cool, lmao ! going to have to chk that out !
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Brilliant idea. I'm gonna have a look at my followers list and keep an eye out for someone awesome who's not getting enough recognition. Kudos on this initiative. Spread that love holmes!
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Great! This is exactly what I want to see. I'm really glad it's inspiring. Thank you so much!
By the way I really did enjoy...
https://steemit.com/satire/@condra/signs-you-re-burnt-out-and-how-to-sort-that-shit-out
I promise to take a break as soon as my latest posting runs it's course. :D
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Robyn Eggs (About)
Sweet!! I just got on steemit today, actually (see my intro here)...and already I am meeting other writers and networking a community!! This is a super fun spot to put my energy into, I must say. :D Me; I'm over 30, and have changed my major 3 times. I wanted to be an architect with all my heart, but I suck at math! Then I wanted to be an actor...or get my journalism degree, and finally realize my writing...but then I thought to myself - nah! I'll never be able to make money writing; I'll never be able to compete with all the other writers out there! But now, I have the confidence to release my inner voice! (Oh, and I'm finishing my BA as a business major, by the way, online, like a good little girl....& spinning strategy webs with all my might!)
I am a poet
I have always been a poet. Poetry is me. I emote. I emote rhythmically. Rhyme is one of my passions, since the earliest days of my childhood. I write in prose. I keep a diary...this is totally where I am meant to be. Oh, and I'm a Mom. My son is my world. And, he starts Kindergarten this week!! I can't believe 5 years have already came and went. I thought they'd never come!! LOL Now I have the privilege of being able to create, from the comfort of my own home, the bulk of the day, while his little blessed soul partakes in the American education system...Ah, the joys...lol...and the pains...Bring it on ! :D
I've found my home...
So thank you, @williambanks, for this opportunity to share in your community. May you enjoy a full and healthy vacation somewhere exotic and blog about it for all to enjoy! XOXOXO
And let's not forget the steemian who got me started on here, @nebcat, an amazing photographer with an eye to die for!! XO Cheers to you, my friend!
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Thank you for coming. I upvoted your introduce yourself post because I could sense a lot of passion and sincerity. Never hold yourself back. Always be the best you can be.
I know you're going to do great here.
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The reason I started following you, William, was because you took the time to comment and vote on some of my posts. I follow everyone that takes the time to notice me. I also read a lot of comments on blogs and when I hear a voice of a wonderful human being I will follow them because I want them to be a part of my community. I appreciate all the people following me as well, and one of the things I do each day is check to make sure I am following all those who are following me. I love this community. Thank you for coming up with creative ways to support this community William!
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Wow thank you I really appreciate it. That sort of thing really makes my day!
Btw glad to know about the digital currency course. Did you make that or is it just an fyi?
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@ajavajive/university-of-nicosia-digital-currency-course
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"Did you make that or is it just an fyi?"
Make what @williambanks? Sorry, I'm not sure what you are asking here.
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The course you are pointing at I was just wondering if you created the course or were just letting us know about it.
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I am taking the course. Antonis Polemitis,George Papageorgiou, and Andreas Antonopoulos created it, so I think it will be very informative.
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What a lovely way to thank your followers, Well done you
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@karenb54 Thank you and I'm really glad you're here.
Your recent post on men was hilarious. I thought I followed you after seeing that. Turns out I was wrong, but I'm following you now too!
https://steemit.com/men/@karenb54/thank-you-men-for-always-being-there-to-bring-me-pain-and-illness
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Ah thank you that means alot. I am glad you found my post funny and not serious would hate a backlash from the men on here lol
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Apologies for belated comment, my access to the internet has been patchy at best over the last few weeks.
This is another cracking idea @williambanks, and of the hugely high caliber I am coming to expect from you. Such a shame that this post hasn't earned the SBD I think it deserves, although I’m convinced you’ll soon be raking it in given the overall quality of your posts. I will endeavour to feature some of my followers in #NAMEINLIGHTS over the coming weeks.
Anyway, enough arse kissing! Not convinced your offer to take us all to the pub is as great an idea - you'll probably need to earn a bit more SBD to get the first round in, also you have no idea of our relative drinking capacities so you could well end up in quite a messy state! Still the gesture is appreciated!
About me. I've worked in IT development in the financial sector for about 30 years, however at present I’m unemployed and find myself at a bit of a crossroads. While I'm proud of many of the things I achieved for my employer during my career I've come to think that it gave nothing to the world at large, and I'd like to change that in the next 10 or 15 years. Also I'd really like to work on something that genuinely interests me rather than taking the easy option and simply going back to working for the man.
This is one reason why I’m currently experimenting with writing on SteemIt. I've never written seriously before, although I used to enjoy it in the very distant past. I have however harboured many odd ideas throughout my life so I thought I'd see if I could give them a wider reign to enlighten / amuse / annoy a greater audience than previously was the case. And if I can earn a little money doing so all the better.
My current interests seem to be the natures of reality, consciousness, human and non-human intelligence. Also space exploration, extrapolating the trajectory of scientific discovery, and odd connections between things. I also very much enjoy challenging orthodox theory, looking at things from different angles, generally just repeatedly asking 'why', and encouraging others to do the same. You can see why I annoy my friends so much.
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I want to turn the "followers list", into a list full of people I could go to a pub have a drink with.
That sentence alone made me follow you!
I want the same things because this site is not only post and vote, we are humans and we feel the need to interact, to connect.
Here on Steemit we can do that!
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@cynetyc
Thanks I really appreciate it! You're right, the ability to interact and connect with all our followers, reaching them at a deeper level is something that only steemit can do. But only we can do it!
By the way your pictures of spain are gorgeous!
https://steemit.com/photography/@cynetyc/carino-spain
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That's an intense, creative, and thoughtful way to welcome and appreciate your followers. This is REAL social networking people, not that fakebook crap. I'm QuantumAnomaly, a mad scientist, collector of hobbies, and a cynic with a big heart. I'm always willing to lend a hand. Grats on what you've got going, I may have to join the challenge soon.
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@quantumanomaly Yeah and it's helping to show me which of my followers I wasn't following before.
You're in that group now. BTW I love your 3D printer, that's just awesome!
https://steemit.com/diy/@quantumanomaly/a-mad-scientist-s-automated-factory-how-i-built-my-first-3d-printer
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Thanks! I'm a bit more proud of my StoryTrax posts, but my DIY's seem to be catching some popularity, so I may do a bit of back and forthing, DIY stuff to appease the masses, and StoryTrax for myself! XD
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Wow! You have the best ideas! I'm totally going to take you up on the challenge to feature my followers, but after I'm done with the science project, since my time is limited. I'd love to be featured by you at some point, but also not until I'm done with my part of the science project. Then I'll have, shall we say, a wider variety of posts :)
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@wiser You're actually on the top of my list to be featured!
Thanks for participating in #scienceinanarchy BTW.
https://steemit.com/sa1g0/@wiser/science-in-anarchy-experiment-1-day-8
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Seriously????
You're welcome on the #scienceinanarcy participation :)
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Yes seriously! You were the first person to join the #scienceinanarchy study and you have been faithful about detailing the minutia of your day.
This makes it easier to understand who you are as a person. But I think it also shows a vulnerable and human side to you that few people really demonstrate.
Plus as I study your diet I'm actually learning a lot of things like almonds being a huge source of nutrients and almond butter being much healthier than peanut butter. While these aren't in your blog per se. You have subjected yourself to this sometimes going days without even any feedback or so much as an upvote as I get bogged down in other things.
Yet you keep doing it!
Yeah that's just incredible. So yeah I want to feature you. :)
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What a fantastic idea! Have fun with it.
Look forward to getting to know you and your followers better.
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@mynameisbrian
Thanks and I'm looking forward to tasting that salsa recipe!
https://steemit.com/food/@mynameisbrian/lazy-salsa-the-best-damn-salsa-you-ll-ever-eat
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this is a really interesting challenge.... GOOD IDEA!
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@doitvoluntarily
Thanks! I really do agree with your concepts in https://steemit.com/life/@doitvoluntarily/civil-disobedience-promotes-freedom
You have an insightful and compelling way of putting things.
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I'm new to Steemit. I like your article.
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@michaelstobiersk
Thank you very much! I'm from Arizona too although I don't live there anymore.
I love your art it's gorgeous!
https://steemit.com/introduction/@michaelstobiersk/hello-again-from-michael-stobierski
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Thank you. I did follow you.
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Great plan! Like your style.
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@tfeldman
I really appreciate it! As you know I read your posting on polygamy and I felt that it was compelling.
Hope you don't mind me sharing it here.
https://steemit.com/religion/@tfeldman/religion-and-sex-in-america-my-analysis-of-mormon-polygamy
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Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Very cool project, and congrats on reaching that many followers!
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@kenny-crane
Thank you! I liked your blog, but you haven't updated it in 2 months. Come on man, you can't leave us all hanging like that!
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I have another post almost completed, and a few more ideas for the future. Lately I am enjoying curating every day, which provides some portion of the daily total available funds to others. I got lucky in the pre-4th of July days, and I want pieces of the pie to go to others for a while. :-)
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Wow, that's really awesome!
Thanks for doing that!
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You have a lovely voice...
..very like Celine Dion!
;)
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Thanks! BTW did the advice I gave you ever help with the splits?
https://steemit.com/splits/@beanz/how-many-weeks-until-i-get-the-splits
Like I said I have an old leg injury and thinking about taking up yoga to see if it helps again.
Problem with Yoga is once you do it you can't just stop :D
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Yes it was a great help. Of course it will still take time to reach my splits if I am to avoid injury ;)
I'll keep you updated on it. That was just week 1 ;)
Yoga is what I've been using to warm up as well as some quick core exercises. I train most days so don't feel the need to go too hard on myself in the mornings, so yoga is the perfect thing for me and it makes me feel so awake and ready to face the day.
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This will be enlightening for everyone! It will be fun to read your posts.
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Yeah you're pretty high on my list too. But I know you IRL plus you're my regular go to editor. You've been doing some cool stuff in religion lately but my favorite was Biff Tannen for president.
https://steemit.com/politics/@casandrarose/biff-tannen-for-president-yikes-what-would-really-make-america-great
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I totally plan on implementing this after a little more momentum. Thanks for the idea.
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I really hope so. I believe this initiative has the potential to be a game changer. But it's one of those things that will only work when people do it.
By the way I think you did a great job uncovering those scam accounts.
https://steemit.com/plagiarism/@littlescribe/whales-used-msgivings-to-rob-steemit
Also your post on being a paralegal was a hoot!
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What an awesome idea! I think I'm going to adopt this and see where it takes me/us.
Thank you and the next time you're close to the pub, gimme a shout ;)
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Excellent plan!
I really hope you adopt it. By the way I wanted you to know I really enjoyed this...
https://steemit.com/story/@michelle.gent/ghost-walking-an-original-story-by-me
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Ah, thank you! I wrote it for a girl at 'The Bunker', a youth-club attached to a school in town. She was interested in the history of our area and when I handed the story to her and she read it, she seemed delighted.
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@williambanks, I just featured your story in my post, https://steemit.com/september/@littlescribe/steem-tember-favorites
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just checking... and yes I have followed before. while at it I also came alongside with a milestone myself - 100.
Shall I celebrate?
Or shall I wait?
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Every follower is cause to celebrate, especially with the new "feed as homepage" thing. Since it will make it much harder to get discovered and also to discover others.
By the way I loved the photography you did here...
https://steemit.com/photography/@ace108/steemitphotochallenge-round-7-introducing-helix-bridge-3-entries-in-1-post-by-ace108
It was gorgeous.
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I believe, this is the best thing Steemit has done. The home page is filled with posts of people I have followed. Which in turn means I have liked their writing and ideas once and it is likely that I would like them again and again.
I did not use the "feed" option much before, but now this "home" screen is killing it. Just as I logged in, I saw this post of yours.
It tells about a great person with great initiative. @williambanks it is awesome that I follow you. Cheers :)
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I totally agree. The feed feature is great! Unfortunately it also presents a danger of monoculture.
We run a real risk of locking out new people who can make excellent contributions to the platform simply because we can no longer see them easily.
This is one reason for #nameinlights
Unfortunately the feed feature as default home page is going to be harder for people to build a following now. So by bring in not just the people we are following but those that follow us, my hope is that the best can rise up to the top of everyones feed.
We don't yet have a share option, but I think in a way that perhaps this will be better way to discover new people anyways.
By the way I too love origin stories. So I was really impressed with your recent post on the origins and meaning behind yoga. I literally had no idea.
https://steemit.com/yoga/@dev/what-should-everyone-know-about-yoga-yoga-as-we-don-t-know-it
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I agree.
Yes, this initiative is a great one. All the best.
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Nice initiative !
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Thanks! You've always been such an ardent supporter of what is good and right for this platform. It means a lot to hear you think this is a good idea. I really hope you will consider taking the challenge.
By the way I know this is older. But I think you were spot on in this post...
https://steemit.com/steemit-ideas/@liondani/don-t-remove-curation-rewards-just-stop-them-when-the-post-reach-the-trending-page
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Hi my name is @sykochica and I'm a Steemoholic...sry, wrong place for that. Lol
Seriously though I'm a raving generalist that is currently in a phase of writing on LGBT awareness/issues, methods/ideas of self reflection, and hopefully inspiring/help pieces for minnows. From the latter, I've started to help mentor a couple of minnow and love seeing them progress.
I'm hoping soon to be able to take on a few more to help. Between that and the podcast I've been staying rather busy, but I'll see what I can do to meet your challenge! Lol
I keep forgetting to ask you about Steembots.com. One of these days I need to catch you in chat again. :)
As always, a pleasure @williambanks and NOT @williamblake!!
(I really hope there isn't a william blake on here that I keep pinging, lol)
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Well we'e on the same wavelength as always.
I'm actually planning to just back away from steembots. I'll probably sell it.
It didn't get the traction I wanted and it's just going to be a distraction from other projects.
I'll still do custom and bespoke bots for people. However the idea of a bot builders guild doesn't make sense to me anymore. All the early bot builders have already been hired by whales and are doing other tasks.
Giving them something else to do except for griefing the platform was pretty much the whole point.
I need to go on a diet, my todo list is too fat.
No there isn't a williamblake, but when I have a moment I may take it as an alt. ;)
Lovely to see you here. I really hope you'll take the #nameinlights challenge!
BTW your most recent AMA looks great!
https://steemit.com/lgbt/@sykochica/transgender-ask-me-anything-what-questions-might-steemit-users-have-but-been-afraid-to-ask-september-edition
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No worries on Steembots..I'm still thinking of trying something just as a fun project to get me back to coding a bit, it's been a while.
I've got some ideas on the #nameinlights challenge, it's one I'd love to accomplish.
Oooo a squirrel...
Lol
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As for bots, I think that @cristi and @trogdor have been releasing some really quality code lately and their stuff, while mostly analytics based, is a solid basis for a quality bot.
For anyone else following this...
@sykochica is one of my closest friends on this platform. Very strange to meet someone who makes posts, that when you read them for the first time, you think to yourself, "Funny, those are exactly my words but I don't remember writing it."
I have a bot based on neural fingerprinting models. It uses NLP and content extraction and analysis to "map the mind" based on contextual frequency analysis and something we don't have a word for right now, but amounts to word2vec applied to mental context.
You see there is a theory about language acquisition which says that our use of the language is a fingerprint that is absolutely unique to us. The way our minds are constructed during the language acquisition phase of life is supposed to be completely unique to our experiences and influences. These SHOULD be completely unique. IN THEORY!
Anyways I put theory into practice and built a bot for steemit, which is supposed to be able to detect when a person is using a sockpuppet account. I thought it was working remarkably well. I managed to catch several actual sockpuppets. I was going to release it on the world. Then it let me know it had detected @sykochica
and had attributed her to me.
Well obviously that's incorrect! We have nothing in common!
Which merely means there is something fundamentally wrong with this theory. As it turns out the problem with the theory is that it doesn't weight commonality of recent experiences and their imprint on the mind properly. Particularly the parts of the mind responsible for language construction.
Despite us having literally nothing in common growing up. We had both spent a significant amount of time playing the same games such as WoW. We were also both brought up to speak our minds and we both recently went on several years long journey of self discovery and exploration albeit completely different journeys and for completely different reasons.
So what the bot was really detecting is people who have undergone a commonality of stressful experiences which had remolded their minds in such a way as to be reflected in the way they use the language.
Thus I had to scrap the bot.
On the brightside, I did meet someone who thinks the same way I do about most things and made a new friend in the process! Thus one day I may change it up to produce a social similarity index to help you discover people you have nothing in common with, but who are very likely to think the same way you do.
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Ha, I fixed that typo too, tyty! That's what I get for steeming while tired! Lol
Thanks for the info! And sorry I broke the bot :p
I think it's be interesting to try to use the bot you talked about for a 'recommended follow/friend' algorithm or something. Either way it should be fun to mix in the psych/linguistic theory in with a bot...couple of my favorite things :)
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Fascinating story. Would like to see it written up in more detail, with theory and code explained.
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What a fantastic idea! I look forward to meeting your followers, and finding new people to follow. I've added all the commenters here who I wasn't already following.
I've only been here a few weeks and I'm enjoying it so far. I've especially liked meeting fellow vegans and people who like to engage with their readers. :) As you can see from my blog posts, I'm especially concerned about the plight of animals, especially the underappreciated issue of wild animal suffering. I also love literature, vegan recipes, and I'm trying to learn more about the possibilities for blockchain technology. Like you, I'm excited and terrified by the possibilities of technological advancements.
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Thanks you so much and I'm really glad to see you here. Your posts are extremely high quality and well thought out.
Your post on pain and sentience has me considering a lifestyle change.
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@goose/animals-as-persons-what-s-sentience-got-to-do-with-it
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Wow. Thanks! If you need any resources, let me know. :) There are lots of delicious vegan recipes on Steemit, and it's now completely uncontroversial that, with rare exceptions, anyone can be healthy on a vegan diet.
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@Williambanks, What you are doing is the sort of thing that makes the Steemit community a truly enjoyable place to be part of. Thanks for doing this. Just started following you. Collaboration and not competition is what we need more of.
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Thank you so much. I really do hope I've made a difference for the better. By the way I was deeply touched reading your journey through blindness.
https://steemit.com/memoir/@nextgen622/living-in-between-two-worlds-a-memoir-part-1
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Thank you so much William for taking the time to read my story. Really appreciate it.
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I have not gotten involved in any drama on Steemit (so far, fingers crossed) and I deliberately avoid that stuff, but your public apology showed enough class that I looked at some other posts and comments. Those were thoughtful as well, so now I am following you.
The best conversations I've had on Steemit so far have probably been with my followers @mada and @alexbeyman.
As for me, I am a neuroscientist by training, now teaching, writing, and developing a hypnosis practice. I have been posting mostly about science and books.
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Wow, thanks for that!
Yeah I try not to court controversy too much. But I also try to make sure I speak my mind when I see something wrong. Sometimes the balance tips there. I'm working on it.
It's cool you're a neuroscientist. I dunno if you read my reply to @sykochica or not, but the bot I recently developed was developed in conjunction with a neurologist. I'm curious to know what you think of the results that bot actually came up with.
Nice to meet you!
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I did read your abstract, and I'd like to see the rest of the paper.
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This post has been linked to from another place on Steem.
About linkback bot. Please upvote if you like the bot and want to support its development.
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I hope more people do this!
I think it's a great way to spread a bit of love and positivity around here. I just did my first #nameinlights post here .. featuring @queenmountain. She's the bessst :)
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@condra Upvoted, you posts a few minutes ago . I will do mine in the next while!
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Upvoted and followed @queenmountain
You're right! She's incredible!!!
Also I've been working on a new concept called the "Montana Project". So having someone who actually lives in Montana is an incredibly timely resource.
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Hello , @williambanks I am your newest follower. I would like to congratulate you for this idea and hope one day join. Hugs from Brazil.
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