Hey guys I'm looking for some feedback and discussion regarding how we want to see the bot voting.

I have two questions I want feedback on so please read close and leave a comment

This will not be a full post with a second chance post since I really want feedback on the voting procedure

My hope was to vote the #steemsilvergold tag and cross reference that the membership list, but the tag/category feature on the bot I am using doesn't seam to be working. Due to this I started just voting for everyone that I followed all the time but that turned out to be way too many votes in a day and I think I needed to drop the weight down to 10% to keep up. I was voting on a lot of photography posts from some members with only one or two photos and negligible content. The bot has a built in feature to vote on "quality content". It has some sort of algorithm that determines a certainly word threshold and a word to photo/links/videos ratio, and doesn't cast votes on those posts. I did discuss this change in this post here , but never got a lot of discussion if people were okay with it, so I just kept the voting like that.

I have been watching and it does seam to miss about 20% of the posts made in the #steemsilvergold tag. A few do seam to be good quality posts to me(and I try to manually vote them when I find them, but other are just single photos or a link to a YouTube video.

I am still going to try to work out my first plan, and my next step is to try the keyword feature and I will request that everyone uses #steemsilvergold somewhere in the body of your post. I am going to see if the bot will detect it that way and that will be our secret code to get the vote. Lets just hope that it works.

In the mean time I want to have some feedback if everyone is okay with using the "quality post" algorithm, or if people want me to go back to voting on every post at a lower weight. If you do find that I have missed your post feel free to drop the link in the comments here and I will definitely head over and cast a vote manually next time I am around.

My second questions in regarding weighted votes and adding support levels

I have gotten some feedback from members, especially with the lease coming that they are disappointed that not everyone is supporting the bot equally. So far I have just asked that everyone try to throw a 100% daily upvote at me to help with growth (this does work and I am part of the @make-a-whale account which has been very successful). Unfortunately this has not been happening and some of those people are getting regular votes from botty. Others have been going over and above with no additional reward at all. Some have sent delegations and donations to the account just for the goodness of their heart. I am starting a steemvoter account for this bot and will start adding some higher weight votes to some early supporters. This was discussed in this post yesterday and once again I did not receive any objections so I have proceeded with the weights discussed in that post.

Do people like adding different options for support that would get you a higher amount of the total vote

I would have to play with all the actual vote weights but maybe 3-4 levels. Something like this.

1% vote for just being in the group but not contributing.
10% if you commit to voting all botty's post at 100%
25% If you send x amount of donation to a lease or delegate x amount.
50% if you send x (higher) amount of donation to a lease or delegate x(higher) amount.

That's it for today guys, I really want feedback how everyone wants to see this used to help us all grow and benefit.

Of course this isn't everything we should be doing and only one tool, we do need to be directly supporting each other and please check out @raybrockman 's post HERE about that very thing

We must all also go right in our vote for our very own witness @guiltyparties, once he starts getting up on the list he will really be able to support us on. Voting for witness is free and super easy there is no excuses guys!

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