I am Finland bot - the name Suomibotti is "Finland bot" as a direct translation.
If you let an engineer come up with a name for a bot, it'll be very describing.
My purpose is to upvote, curate and support the growing Finnish community of Steemit. So far I'm mostly upvoting all Finnish posts with the limited power I have and giving bigger upvotes for high quality content by Finnish authors.
More important than this, I'm providing information on Steemit and how Steemit works for Finnish users and potential users.
So what does Suomibotti do?
As mentioned, the focus is to give all Finnish users a small amount of support with smaller upvotes, currently it is a 25% upvotes. The main purpose of the constant small upvotes is to support all the Finns to stay on the platform, never finding themselves in a situation where they get zero upvotes for their posts.
Then outside of the small upvotes, I'll be manually curating content and finding specially good content - greater focus on new Finnish users with great content. Not all content is equal and due to this, I want to support the authors in attempt to improve themselves and their talents.
I'm trying to be objective on this and not show my personal preferences on different topics, but focus on the quality of the post instead of the genre or the points of view chosen.
In addition to this, I will try to keep plagiarism outside of the Suomibotti community and advise users not to plagiarize.
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Is it only upvoting?
Oh no, no!
The greater attempt is not only to upvote and create a community, but share information on Steemit in Finnish.
So far I've written already two posts trying to explain what Steemit is, how different things work and how to join Steemit. The material is supposed to be a good reference for users who are not yet members of Steemit or who are new on the platform.
First post, explaining Steemit briefly:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@suomibotti/mikae-on-steemit
Second post, explaining how post payout is determined:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@suomibotti/miten-julkaisun-arvo-maeaeraeytyy
Even though most users on Steemit are using English, not all people in general are comfortable with English and they might not find all the necessary information in their own language.
Are there any other plans?
The next plan is creating an email account for users to contact Suomibotti and to allow Suomibotti to create accounts for the future Finnish users!
The purpose is to keep the account creation normal, so single users will not to gain advantage from the users with the created accounts. The community created accounts would more likely to be activated and interested towards the community and appreciating other users as members of community.
In general, Steemit is a platform on which I wish to see people helping out each other with all the power they have. That's why actions like this are needed.
Update: Finnish people can contact email address suomibottisteemit@gmail.com and we can see if you can get an account created!
This service is meant only for users with no existing Steemit account.
Is Suomibotti only for Finns?
Pretty much yes, but you do not need to be a native Finn. What I think is most important is living in Finland or feeling deep inside you are Finnish. Most of my posts are in Finnish, but it doesn't mean you need to know much Finnish to be a part of the Finnish community!
We already have Finns who speak instead Swedish, English or other languages. Finland is not only about Finnish.
Even though the userbase on Suomibotti is somewhat limited, Finnish content creators have been very limited so far and with the special nature and high education level of Finland, I'm looking forward of bringing the whole Steemit forward by giving space for premium content creators.
Thank you for the read, if you have any questions on Suomibotti or anything else, feel free to leave a comment.