Do flagging bots exist
was a dpoll/question @deathcross asked.
To be honest I don't know. I am not into the bot thing. I read, comment and vote. Only 1 person receives an automatically upvote from me and still I read the posts written (one every two weeks).
Although @fitinfun writes great posts for minnows and plankton I do not use everything.
What benefits one does not need to benefit an other (at the moment) plus of it comes to steem I am I stick to what works fine .
Ginabot is a good example.
I am not that interested to find out who unfollows me and why. I know all my followers do not visit me daily. It is an impossible task and neither I can do visit all of them.
I answer who commented and visit and comment back.
I read what is new, use Appics and comment there as well, do the same via palnet, dpoll etc.
This way I meet more Steemians and read different posts.
I try to join the contests I remember and the comment is a new remind-me.
24 hours sounds long.
Still, I run out of time. I am busy to connect and no longer busy with doing what I like most.
I spent over 12 hours on Steem and this is an aweful lot of time, especially with a slow connection like mine.
Does it pay back?
At times it does. For example as I made the @freewritehouse advertisement and @felt.buzz delegated 500 SP to me for a month. I see it as a chance to pay back all those who helped and still help me. Help to survive here, help with tips, advice me, show something new, but I also see it as a chance to help others with a little push of my side.
I know the SP is temporary but it might be good. After that time I can consider what to do next.
The HF21 is a fact.
I have doubts if this will make it easier for people to join the platform.
If I should still promote it as the platform to be.
@deathcross mentioned a flagged-war by bots and it doesn't feel good to me.
At times I see cheetah (?) say the author is a scam and if cheetah is mistaken he/she should contact via Discord. To be honest I find this the other way round. If you acuse someone you are the one who has to come with prove. So if you comment this way (bot or not) write: text is from (link) or picture is seen here ...
That cannot be so hard and still you don't know if it is true. Nowadays people join many platforms and they do not always use the same name.
I wonder what will be left of this platform, so many of us promote, as being a close and helpful family (#seven77 on Twitter).
If I understand it well HF20 was to fight scam, HF21 is to do the same, pushing people into flagging more and reward whales more as others (just read in @fitinfun her minnow tips whales hardly write? I just checked out some whales and higher on the ladder as I Steemians but I cannot say it's a rule.)
Might be I am flagged now for saying what I think, am worried about.
I have no respect for the ones who do so without giving a reason. It is the least you can do hidden behind your device or bot. I also wonder if once flagged will be undone and if so how it will influence the author. Somehow flagging feels sneaky to me, like gossiping.
The picture is a pixabay.com pic