RE: Curie Author Showcase (March 1st, 2018)
To those who spend inordinate amounts of time scanning through the content here on SteemIT, all I can say is, WOW, good freaking job Curie. This project is the sort that is going to take SteemIt to its next level of evolution. The quality of the posts that the Curie curators are elevating is really quite impressive and will help to both further legitimize SteemIT as a content platform while simultaneously attracting new content creators and, perhaps more important, content consumers! Excellent content produced exclusively on SteemIT will ultimately help to drive traffic away from the big nasties (I'm looking at you Youtube, FB, G+, etc) on onto the wonderfully decentralized playground that is SteemIT. Thank you for all that you are doing Curie, please keep it up and expand it if possible and let's continue to drive SteemIT quality to ever higher levels....Very Cool, thanks!!
I have to say that @gentlebot got it right here, great comment and well deserving of the big upvote :) Thanks for the compliments and I am certainly hoping the same things you are! Cheers - Carl
Thanks @carlgnash. Only a few weeks into things here, so I'm still quite ignorant on all the details. My working assumption was that the bots were essentially a pay-to-get-your-own-stuff-upvoted type of mechanism. Perhaps not all bots work like this...will need to investigate @gentlebot ... I certainly didn't pay for an upvote here. Confused on this end... bumping into walls, cornering me nuts on the coffee table and accidentally pulling down curtains like a lout, but I will evolve.
a bot does what it is programmed to do. Certainly not all bots are paid upvote bots. @gentlebot and its cousin bot have an algorithm that looks for "good comments" to upvote. They occasionally get it wrong, but more often than not they are actually upvoting a good comment (like this case!). Cheers - Carl