Good Bots, Bad Bots: what should a BOTFREE social Dapp look like?
Amazingly, ROBOTS- BOTs are one of the beauties of Technology, they could make our lives much easier and at the same time make human lives miserable when we imagine the dangers of Artificial Intelligent taking our jobs and maybe taking over Human space (Fictious). Once there is no herds for AI Robots to take over the earth from humans, then it is a good thing to have BOTs around, same thing applied on the Blockchain. But, our fears are coming through beginning from a host of Blockchain platforms and social media like Steem, Twitter. BOTs are now taking human place and making the Platform more and more less friendly for people using it(Of course if you have a ship load of tokens or fans/followers, you wouldn't mind to build your own BOTs).
But there are good ones and bad ones. Good BOTs are extremely beneficial to users, on the Blockchain, they help to create required visibilities for products and maybe seasoned content creators not spammers and abusers. Bad BOTs on the hand never plays by the Rules of engagement; they are programmed with malicious intentions to hinder the good of a place e.g Steem Blockchain, Twitter; these unregulated BOTs freak users out, scam them of their little Steems, supports abusers and Plagiarists.
But someone did a noble thing by creating one of the best Army of Good BOTs aiming to combat every form of despair and lost faith in the Steem Ecosystem.
To those who had lost faith in the Blockchain blogging through Steem and to those still losing it, this is for you. Since “BOTOCALYPSE”, the platform has turned away from what was originally designed for (Blog and Earn), presently not many minnows and other tiny fishes could endure the stress of Blogging on the platform with little or nothing to show for it. To get a visit from most BOTs, you have to feed them (pay for upvotes services) and then they show up 2hours later or more as the cases may be. Some of these BOTS are created to cause chaos, spamming and for endless self-voting which seems like a mayhem to the steem Blockchain.
Just a few people, a tiny portion of patrons of these BOTs care about human interactions and engagement more than their own purses and wallets and personal agendas. Though a dapp like Uptrennd doesn't have BOT problems, it has other petty problems, but that can never be compared to BOT infestation!
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