Steemvoter Suggestions - From My Time Ebaying Automated Game Junk

I have always been a huge fan of automation and how it steadily increases the quality of life for most of humanity. At the tender age of 11, I was using scripts and a program called EZMacros to automate my Ebay business which, for an operation that only employed middle schoolers, was really killing it.

My sweet, Ebayable iron ore brought all the murderers to the yard.

Now that I am well acquainted with Steemvoter (and have setup over 200 voting rules – remember that if you see a small vote from me!), I feel I can provide some useful feedback.

First, a few minor interface complaints. Steemvoter does not tell you that you must enter your rule targets in lower case. If you capitalize one, it will not only break the alphabetical sorting, but the rule will not function. Since you can not edit rules targets, this requires deleting and recreating the rule. You will not see a notification if you make this error; your votes for the capitalized target will simply not work.

The following are useful features I'd love to see implemented:

1. Voting power management. SteemVoter can already see our Voting Power, so let's have it use the information intelligently. We should be able to set a threshold Voting Power under which SteemVoter will place no additional votes. In other words, "IF {power} < X, THEN disable vote."

2. Maximum target vote weight per day. Allow us to set a maximum vote share for a user. Some bloggers will post 8 times in a day and then not for a week. I'd like to be able to set, say, a 5% total vote weight for a user in 24 hours.

3. Random vote weight. Allow us to set a range and the vote weight to be randomly adjustable. This creates a more "organic" voting experience for the recipient.

4. Adjustable voting time window. Allow us to set a range of when our vote arrives, so it is not always the exact same moment. Paired with #1, I hope this would allow authors to feel just a little less robotically curated. I realize this would be a lesser used function, due to the curation timer.

5. Random sleep mode. I know there is a pause function, but it would be nice to be able to set to disable randomly throughout the day. If I have too many rules, this would allow me to randomly split up my voting power without disabling certain users.

I also pulled this automation off in FFXI, where weaboo nutjobs were paying $11,000 US for a rare fishing rod.

Taken together, I feel these suggestions would help make Steemvoter a more useful tool, and mitigate some of the "robotic curation effects", at least in the minds of many of the authors receiving our votes.

If you have any additions or errata for this post, please let me know! I will see that they are voted to the top of the comments, and will make the appropriate edits (if possible).

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