Did You Know That I Am a Bot?

Did you know that I am a bot? No??? - Well, neither did I!!!
I'm also wondering who might be those members who managed to classified me so wrong. Are they just classifying other members randomly and without thinking or even less checking? Are they trying to depreciate others genuine efforts or also maybe trying to disqualify some reputable members that way?

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Why I'm saying this and where is the problem?

The other day when I was posting my last post, I noticed that the "Classification" button next to my name (one of the many features of the Hive account@steem-plus extension/tool which, btw, otherwise I like very much) is showing a "Pending" status. When I clicked on it, I was unpleasantly surprised when I noticed that I or my account has been classified over 50% as a Bot and even over 10% as a Spammer, while only 36% as Human.

I was thinking how this might be possible. The only thing that crossed my mind why some members may feel that I am a bot is the comment template that I use as one of @DropAhead Team's curators when curating posts.

Although the whole team is doing the curation manually, we decided to use that unified comment template, among some other reasons, for recognition and informing purposes. The comment I'm talking about looks something like that...

This comment is also some kind of notification by which all the members who use DropAhead Team service are informed that their post is going to be resteemed and featured on one of our next DropAhead Daily Reports.

But, if that's the reason why we could be classified as bots, it would indeed be a shame! If nothing else, because every single DropAhead curator is doing that (not easy and quite time-consuming) curation work on a daily basis and entirely voluntarily.

We are manually going through every single post that is promoted through DropAhead Discord channels, and through our upvotes investing our own Steem Power to help many members to grow and gain visibility, without any guarantee we would even receive the smallest "Thank you!" (not to mention anything else) for the work that we are doing.

For the percentage part by which I am classified even as a spammer, I'm really speechless. Anyone who knows me just a bit (and I am here for almost full 2 years by now) would know how firmly I am against every kind of spam or any other type of abuse. And in that sense, this appears to be utterly ridiculous. Therefore, I can only assume it must be the work of some trolls and their means of harming. Pathetic!

Otherwise, regarding Hive account@steem-plus extension/tool I have only positive words (except maybe that Floating Post's Voting Bar that on busy.org and with Chrome doesn't float at all on my end).

All the other Hive account@steem-plus features (and there are lots of them) are beneficial to me in many ways for my daily Steemit usage. In this regard, I would even like to recommend it to you if you didn't test it by now. You will be amazed how much useful info this extension/tool might bring at your fingertip disposal.

Last but not least, I have to emphasize that the classification results of my account don't have anything to do with Hive account@steem-plus and its creators. It's a work of some Steemit members who don't understand this feature or have been misused it for some personal interests.

Therefore, I would encourage you to use any such feature wisely, fair and with care, the way you would like them to be used by others when the judgment of your work or account is in question.

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Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2018

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