Hi Laonie, I managed to get a working bot that follows authors. It seems yours instead is following curators. Would you like to share any tip on how to do that?

bless you @laonie, your every minnows' hero, thanks!

Hi, I have an idea for curation process. Please check my idea here.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@atomrigs/proposal-steem-power-rental-market

You created a chain of goodness!

One of the best initiative I have encountered yet. This way of bot operation will have a big positive impact on the rewarding system on several fronts.

--> Great authors who are hidden under the shadows get more exposure. 
--> Better reward for curators. Inviting more people to better curate. 

Well done Laonie

Glad to see there are righteous bots out there

This will be fascinating. Keep us updated please!

your suggestions are well intentioned. I hope that putting it to practice will be of benefit to the platform. and yes, as you said: frustrated good authors are likely to leave.

ridiculous, voting robots should not exist, that's all !!!

Good catch! The system isn't smooth and let it you for now. But if Steemit wants  to develop to atract human-beings not robots it will be for a short time.

Good luck with the project and looking forward to it.

i am active everyday ;) i don't mind taking that there voting power, no siree bob ! :P

How about bot which votes for post that already have many votes of minnows? Of course that strategy could be sybil atacked, but if your bot could differ with high probability real humans from puppet accounts it would be nice.

interesting :)

I've just written this article concerning a flaw (as I see it) in the voting system and the solution I found. I'd be happy if you could read it and give me a feedback ;) 

https://steemit.com/steemit/@glitterfart/the-flaw-of-the-current-voting-system-and-an-actual-solution

Hey Laonie! Just found out about this post. It's a great initiative and I am lucky to be a part of it. Your vision of creating a healthy Steemit community is invaluable.

I would highly recommend contacting @dragonslayer109. They pull out some really good content and do it consistently. Great initiative and I wish you the best with putting your SP to good use!

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Great!
我也想编个机器人玩玩了。

According to this.. I ***WAS*** a top author up until last week when I lost the support of user @wang.

Even tho my content is till consistently highly praised by my peers... Anybody that can advise me on what happened will be much appreciated!!
<a href="https://steemit.com/@mrwang"><IMG src="https://i.sli.mg/IEh81Z.png"></a>

wow,  thank you for share

Hi @laonie,

I cannot write to much now as my hands are full with other matters, however I did want to take the time to thank you for the endorsement and your patronage. I think this initiative is an excellent one. I will continue to try to curate good content.

More to follow at a later date...

https://snag.gy/kZzcUn.jpg

学习

Laonie, 

Even as a dolphin, I find it difficult to get my posts upvoted.  https://steemit.com/life/@pairmike/are-you-a-slave-i-was-a-slave-to-the-american-dream-learn-how-i-escaped

Great idea. I also thought about how to make a bot. Could you write a tutorial on how to create? All I knew it requires Python and special python-steem

So, all good voting power-user uses robot to vote only toppers !!!
amazing :)

Nice idea laonie. I already started working on a similar bot 2 or 3 weeks ago which doesn't work that bad. On steemit you can't win with quantity, but only with selected and smart actions. And so must be the bots.

What if a curator has no tone topic but many? 
For example a curator is commenting on 8 topics and ssems to be an expert in a few fields?

How wil you analize if he is good on the field at all?

Good luck to you! I invite you to my page

@laonie May I ask what your robot is looking for when it is "crawling" for "Good Authors?" Do grammatical errors count? Followers? Comments and Replies in a Post?
Also, is there somewhere we can submit our work to see if it is good enough for the 'bot' testing? Thanks.
@streetstyle