I have seen several arguments for and against bots and I wanted to chime in.
My greatest argument for bots hit me after using Autosteem for a week. No matter what methodology I used to vote, I always had at least 50-60% vote power left.
The remaining vote power means there are high quality posts not receiving my vote. I may miss posts because posts are:
- Posted outside of my filter
- Posted outside of my timezone
- Posted when most people are publishing posts
- Posted under tags I am not watching
Having software that makes use of my remaining vote power is a huge benefit to new and often missed Steemit users.
It prevents always voting for the same author and could allow you to find new high quality content.
A simple way to make sure there is less unused voting power is to set Autosteem to vote for posts under a desired tag that have a certain vote threshold, etc, but with the added caveat that you set the filter to always leave a percentage of your voting power so you can continue to manually curate.
If you are leaving votes behind, consider how you can use these resources to ensure new steemians posted good content aren't left out.
A lot of times I judge a post based on the title, first picture, or whether I already know the user. Autosteem has a couple ways to asses the value of the content beyond surface metrics.
You can monitor the comments first...
Or you can just look at all the pictures associated with the story.
The latter method definitely pushes content makers to make sure their story is being told with words and pictures. This is particularly valuable if an Instagram clone is released for Steemit.
I have started doing this in my poetry organically, but have revently read that some guilds are actively promoting content with more than one picture.
What are some bots or guilds you use to solve the problem of having unused voting power?
If you are still a 100% die hard manual curator, what is your number one argument against bots or curation tools?
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