Hi everyone, I'm back with another update to the Steem Bot Tracker.
Send bids directly from the bot tracker website!
This was a highly requested feature, so as the title says - you can now send bids directly to any of the bid-based voting bots directly from the bot tracker website!
You may notice there is a new column all the way to the right called "Send Bid" which has a link that allows you to send a bid to any bot in the list. When you click that link, it will ask you to fill out the information about the bid you want to send...
The really cool part about this (in my opinion at least) is that the bot tracker site will validate your bid for you to make sure everything is correct before you submit it! It will validate the following things:
- The bot accepts the chosen currency
- The amount is equal to or greater than the minimum
- The post URL is properly formatted and links to a valid steem post or comment
- The post is not older than the max age that the bot accepts
- The bot has not already voted on this post before
If any of the above validation checks fails, the site will show a clear error message and not allow you to continue until the issue is fixed:
Then once everything checks out, a SteemConnect transfer URL is loaded right within the modal dialog on the bot tracker site so you can continue to submit your bid without ever leaving the page!
The site refreshes the bot info every 30 seconds so don't freak out if your bid doesn't show up in the bot details immediately after it is submitted. Take a few deep breaths and then it should show up :-)
I'm hoping that this will really help prevent newer and inexperienced users from submitting invalid bids and losing their money. I know that is one of the biggest sources of complaints from the voting bots (at least the ones that don't do automatic refunds) and it's a very discouraging and frustrating experience when that happens.
Additional Filters
Now that there are quite a few bid-based voting bots around, I thought it would be good to add additional filters to the site to allow you to have more control over which bots you want to see.
Previously there was only the vote value slider to filter out bots which had vote values less than the selected amount, but now you can also filter by the following options:
- Only show bots that provide a bid API so the data shown is guaranteed to be accurate.
- Only show bots that automatically refund invalid bids.
- Only show bots that accept STEEM.
- Only show bots that have a pre-vote / front-runner group.
Want to only see bots that accept STEEM and automatically refund invalid bids? Now you can!
Thanks for your support!
As always I want to thank everyone who has helped and supported me in creating this tool. I love that it has been able to help so many people learn about and use vote selling services to promote their content and grow their following and earnings on the Steem platform. Please stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks!
Links to relevant commits:
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