I realized trying to campaign for witness is silly and decided to stop spending time in that and do productive and relevant stuff.
I even made a video to have my first D-TUBE one uploaded with the Closing of the witness campaign.
Of course I have not missed any block yet!
(Last time i checked i was in position 153 and that is too far from the top to be allocated the chance to produce one, let alone miss one)
The votes will eventually come, for the time being my server has witnessed how other witness make blocks and is happy to show me a fake "Matrix" when i'm bored.
What have i been up to:
Now I have spend most of this week at my keyboard, mostly scripting to try and provide help here and there, made a discord BOT that tells how many witnesses votes you have left, your VP, pending rewards to claim.
(make friends with him: rockdio#3931 and ask him.info username)
Also have been doing some forensics, exploring the blockchain trying to find patterns and links of interaction for the phishing scammers. (I have this suspicion they are somehow related to the DDOS attacks we have been suffering)
Preparing the radio show for next sunday
Networking inside and outside steemit to find support to make my projects go forward
Avoiding the cheap tricks of the masters of greed
And trying to engage with the community in general
I also programmed a few useful bots:
Summoning bot
The problem: Because of the trails, most South-Americans go and drop links in several discord servers (which make for a zillion of channels and it is almost impossible to follow unless you do only curation and nothing else )
People do not engage, nor take the time to see if there is good content in those channels, which is understandable, most people just comes to steemit for a few minutes, only few of us dedicate several hours a day to it.
Most write their post and drop the link in the appropiate channel, in the hopes the trail of the project votes for it.
Some count in posting in the appropiate TAG to achieve the same, and most of the time they are so busy chasing the votes that forget to read and vote other's posts.
My proposed solution: Enters: Summoning BOT (I'm yet to find a name for him/her)
Any STEEMIT user will be able to identify content worth voting for to recognize the author's effort. (this is not thought to optimize curation rewards or the such)
Once a great post is identified, it suffices to write the following keywords:
Contenido Venezolano que vale la pena
As well as at least a 250 character description of why they think the post is worth a vote.
This will trigger the bot, which aggregates the links and ends up spitting out a nice markdown report which will be published by @reveur account for anyone who wants to check and support Venezuelan authors.
Also a highly trained team of curators will be notified and will check the posts, and decide to cast a vote from our limited 5K SP, the votes will be either 100% | 50% | 25% depending on the "ENGAGEMENT." The post created, the more exchanges trough comments and the highest the value of the discussion the higher the Vote percentage.
Since quality content is a subjetive matter, and what is garbage for you might be a diamond for me, I think the best way to appreciate it is trough the eyes of the users that engaged in a discussion and the author who answered.
The "Voters" from the team, then will leave a comment with an image which will summon RoVOTe his shinny python hearth will evaluate if I've authorized the author and to how much the vote should be.
I actually intend to encourage everyone to use the image and those who repeatedly use it in an ethical way will find themselves authorized.
I also intend to keep semi-confidential the list of authorized people
What I expect to do with this is to empower Venezuelan users to use my SP and instill an ethical behavior towards engagement.
Am I being selfish by only speaking of Venezeuelans?
Well maybe, however I had to decide between expanding it to the whole #castellano speaking community which would have meant to cast lots of low value votes.
So instead I decided to start small (6 to 10 votes a day) with a population which is struggling to find recognition in their works and that are my fellow contrymen and also that are trapped in a dictatorship, with rampant inflation, so any source of hard currency is a relief.
Once the #venezuela tag has been voted if the VP allows it will cascade to #castellano tag and finally if still there is VP the #spanish tag will be voted.
As I manage to invest more money in STEEM and power it up i will be expanding the initiative gradually to try and cater for the three tags and help everyone.
Nameless friendly BOT
I have been looking at some frowned upon behaviors like those annoying "Follow me and i follow you" or "I voted in your article you vote for me now" (Hell someone even left a copy paste of a @cheetah warning pointing to their blog in one of my articles) So I tried a friendly approach explaining why this was not the right way to grow in steemit.
This allowed me to engage with the offenders and in most cases are just people desperately trying to find out what works and how to make this worth the time it demands. I gave them a few pointers and advice and them all responded in a very positive and promising way.
So as coincidences in steemit are common, discussing with @patrice she had the same idea for proactively handle trough @spaminator in a friendly way these offenses (if they don't listen someone will unleash @cheetah on them :-) )
So the nameless BOT idea materialized also
This is an example we will be implementing to prevent TAG abuse. (It will only comment once per user, giving a brief explanation of what the tag is meant for, it will speak English, Spanish, Turkish, French and Italian)
I am very happy and proud to have the honor to be collaborating with them.
Well i know TL | DR but well I have taken steemit as a full time job. (yet to receive a salary though)