For nearly a month now, Steem users have been pleasantly surprised to find their comments upvoted by a quiet little account called @gentlebot or @thing-2. These are bot accounts that I set up after the recent hard fork opened up curation rewards to comment voters. Collectively, the two bots have cast over 6000 votes so far for over 3400 distinct authors. They're like my main voting bot in the sense that they employ a simple Machine Learning algorithm to learn which kinds of posts are popular, and then cast votes for the good ones. They have a couple other tricks that you can figure out if you look closely, but for the most part that's it. @gentlebot tries to vote for comments that it thinks will have high payouts, @thing-2 tries to vote for comments that it thinks will receive many votes. If you're wondering, @gentlebot earns slightly higher curation rewards. Keep an eye on @gentlebot's blog for more details, or read his introduceyourself post.
Why bring this up now?
I wanted a good solid month of data before I brought this to the community, and now's the time. I want to build you a bot! My curation system is one of the only intelligent, adaptive ones on Steemit, and I've implemented several features to make it difficult to manipulate (thanks in particular to @dreamiely and friends for finding an easy exploit).
Are you trying to establish a community on Steemit and you want to deploy auto-voting on members of your community? I can help! It's very easy for me to deploy a bot that upvotes comments only on posts with a particular set of tags, or in a particular category, or posted from a particular platform (such as @jesta's chainbb.com or @good-karma's esteem).
How does it work? You tell me what you want the bot to do, what sorts of posts you want it to vote for, how often you want it to vote, etc. I set up a new bot account and pay the account creation fees. Then, you delegate Steem Power to the account and I turn on auto-voting! It's as simple as that. You need to do almost nothing, but you'll get votes on whatever content it is that you're looking for; I'll earn my way with the trickle of curation rewards I get from it.
Contact me here or on steemit.chat to get your bot set up!