Bots

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.

DrPhil Bot

"Dr. Phil (drphil.rb) is reimplementation of the "Winfrey" voting bot specification. The goal is to give everyone an upvote.

One optional improvement is that instead of voting 1% by 100 accounts like the Winfrey bot spec, this script can vote 100% with 1 randomly chosen account.

If the complaint about Winfrey is blockchain bloat, Dr. Phil prescribes weight loss to address this. But this feature would only work if there are enough voters defined in the script. If you plan to use this script for one or two accounts, you'll probably want to adjust the VOTE_WEIGHT constant to something a bit lower."

-Inertia

Bot Creator

The DrPhil Bot was created by inertia. It is a re-implementation of the Winfrey Bot.

Installation

The original post announcing the bots creation is here

The bot is posted under the 'radiator' tag.

Updates

Updates can be found through a search using this link. It will search for new posts under the radiator tag from which you can find the latest update post.

Links:

• Steemit : http://www.steemit.com
• Steem Tools : http://steemtools.com
• @merej99 : SteemVoter and the organic curator, March, 26th, 2017

Related articles:

• API Libraries
• Increase Your Steem Net Worth
• Steem
• Steemit
• Steem Ecosystem

References:

• Wikipedia : Internet Bot, Software Agent Retrieved in 4/12/2016
• Rigo Technology Blog : Bots, Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence Written by Bip Khanal in 2/4/2017

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