This experiment has been running for almost 2 weeks now and I think it's time to analyze the outcome. If you don't know, what I'm referring to ... :
https://steemit.com/goodbot/@goodbot/goodbot-s-first-job
left more than 700 comments in that time.
The reason, why I thought policing that tag would be a good thing to do, was mainly to keep it free for the actual newbies, who are encouraged by the welcome page to make a post there.
There isn't a real rule about this and my bot doesn't try to enforce any rules, but tries to give a friendly hint.
While I had some encouraging comments and votes for goodbot's main post, I also got a bunch of not so happy responses ...
https://steemit.com/@goodbot/recent-replies
First, I tried upvoting the positive comments and whenever someone reacted and removed the tag, I gave them some cents for their fixed post.
However, I also had some people going really mad at me and I started copying the steemcleaner's standard reply.
In the end I felt like Eric Cartman, when he was deputized ...
I don't want to be the next Steemit Police.
I still think tag abuse sucks, but I will not comment on responses to .
I will just let it run, until I hear a good argument against it.
What bugs me about this is how people who practice tag discipline will lose out compared to tag abusers.
I just hope people will go back to manual curation. With 10 votes/day it shouldn't really be too hard to do some actual reading instead of showering an entire category with (easily abused) votes. If that was to happen more, 's comments might actually have more of an effect.