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* '''@personz''' : [https://steemit.com/bots/@personz/all-singing-all-dancing-bots-act-1 All singing, all dancing ~ BOTS! ~ Act 1] ''February 2017''
 
* '''@personz''' : [https://steemit.com/bots/@personz/all-singing-all-dancing-bots-act-1 All singing, all dancing ~ BOTS! ~ Act 1] ''February 2017''
 
* '''@personz''' : [https://steemit.com/bots/@personz/are-bots-bad-for-steemit-bots-act-2 Are bots bad for Steemit? - BOTS! Act 2] ''March 2017''
 
* '''@personz''' : [https://steemit.com/bots/@personz/are-bots-bad-for-steemit-bots-act-2 Are bots bad for Steemit? - BOTS! Act 2] ''March 2017''
* '''@boxmining''' : [https://steemit.com/steemit/@boxmining/my-adventure-to-steemit-botting-part-1 Are bots bad for Steemit? - BOTS! Act 2] ''March 2017''
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* '''@boxmining''' : [https://steemit.com/steemit/@boxmining/my-adventure-to-steemit-botting-part-1 My Adventure to Steemit Botting (Part 1)] ''March 2017''
* '''@merej99''' : [https://steemit.com/curation/@merej99/steemvoter-and-the-organic-curator My Adventure to Steemit Botting (Part 1)], ''March 26th, 2017''
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* '''@merej99''' : [https://steemit.com/curation/@merej99/steemvoter-and-the-organic-curator SteemVoter and the organic curator], ''March 26th, 2017''
 
* '''@samstonehill''' : [https://steemit.com/bot/@samstonehill/please-do-not-upvote-this-if-you-are-human Please do not upvote this if you are human!] ''May 9th, 2017''
 
* '''@samstonehill''' : [https://steemit.com/bot/@samstonehill/please-do-not-upvote-this-if-you-are-human Please do not upvote this if you are human!] ''May 9th, 2017''
 
* '''@inertia''' : [https://steemit.com/steemit/@inertia/more-max-payouts-less-bot-impact More Max Payouts = Less Bot Impact] ''May 9th, 2017''
 
* '''@inertia''' : [https://steemit.com/steemit/@inertia/more-max-payouts-less-bot-impact More Max Payouts = Less Bot Impact] ''May 9th, 2017''

Revision as of 21:17, 17 June 2017

Bot is a software application or software agent that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the internet or the blockchain. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering (web crawler), in which an automated script fetches, analyzes and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. On the internet, more than half of all web traffic is made up of bots.

In Steemit the most common use of bots is for upvoting posts but there are other popular bots running on the platform, like @cheetah which automatically finds similar content helping report presumable plagiarism. Bots exists in Steem Ecosystem since after the official launch in July 4th, 2016, at that time the steemian @marsresident published a list of 7 existent bots he found in the platform.

List of Bots

Controversial

Steemian @personz, creator of Steem FOSSbot Voter, remembered that Bots are always controversial. "Why can't we only have people on the network, you know, like a social network?! Society is made of people, not robots." He thinks new users are especially put off by them, particularly those of a non-technical background. There's something suspicious about robots going around, making posts and votes, that you cannot talk to and that are not ... human. He discussed this issue in posts published on Steemit in February and March 2017.

In January 2017, Thomas Te Aroha Kohi (@senseiteekay) accused Steemvoter and Streemian, along with voting bots scripts, to give users the option to manipulate the value of posts. He thinks that it goes against the very wording of Steem's whitepaper. "How are the users supposed to retain a "fair assessment of the subjective value of each contribution", if each contribution is being manipulated.", he asked. Thomas defined this problem as a Sybil Attack.


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