I've been cranking out more late night updates to my AutoSteem tool.  This new version has a TON of enhancements which I know everyone can use. And these are in response to what people have commented on, asked for as features and chatted with me on in steemit chat, as well as things I've got from my long list of future enhancements.  

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I really want Autosteem to help you interact on steemit, as well as to have smart voting that supports your favorite content and authors.  This release brings several great enhancements for both those areas, so let's get started...


## First of All, What is Autosteem?

AutoSteem is an an automation tool for voting, curating and better browsing of Steemit! It provides various views including photo and galleries to review new content on steemit and it runs in your browser when left on.  You can check it out here, read more about it and have a look, just open it, let it start monitering new posts and then check out the various views.
## https://autosteem.learnthis.ca


# New Features in AutoSteem 1.2

Thanks to everyone helping report issues and making suggestions, please continue to tell me things you are looking for.

## More AutoVoting Filters
I'm really happy with these new autovoting filters, as based on the feedback, many people wanted to have easier ways to autovote, as well as to support there favorite authors more easily.  So, there are some new auto voting tools now to do just that.
### Start and Stop each AutoVote Type
Now, with different auto voting modes all built into AutoSteem, it needed to have some improved controls to turn each on and off.  Which you can do now with the main Vote Filters page.

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The Advanced AutoVote was available in earlier version of Autosteem and your settings for it will be maintained.  However, there are a couple new autovote tools, which are much simpler to configure and use.

### Favorite Blogs
This one is great to be able to support your favorite authors and to always vote their content, without all the advanced criteria in the advanced mode having to be met.  Plus, you can still use your Advanced Autovote, PLUS a few of your favorite authors in this new filter, as they all work simultaneously in Autosteem.

Just hit the configure button to edit each filter now. Here is the Favorite Blogs filters:
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You can still use a delay, but with a separate maintain voting %, you can lower this down to ensure you always vote your favorite blogs even if your other filter runs out of voting power.  I use 75% on this and 80% for my autovote filter, which ensure there is always room to autovote my favorites!  Plus you can set a different vote power, so put 100% here and less in other filters for example.

### Smart Vote Copying
This new autovoter, does one thing.  It copies the votes of others.  So, if you know a great curator and love what they vote for, you can copy all of their votes here.  Again, set an individual maintain voting % and voting power to use if you would like.
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Voting page now shows when voting is paused due to being underpowered for both advanced and blog autovoting.

### Set Manual Vote Power
UpVote Buttons now can be set with a specific Vote Power from the filters page.  If you have enough steem power and are a prolific voter, you can use a lower vote %, similar to the vote slider in steemit.
 
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## Mentions
Thanks to @mattclarke and @countrygirl for requesting this great feature. AutoSteem now monitors every post and comment and provides you a view of anyone who mentions you using the @username format.  It's a great way to stay engages with anyone who mentions you or your posts, even if they don't reply directly.  

I love that some notifications were added now in the main Steemit app as well.  Autosteem shows you a list of mentions and keeps that history for you, which augments the new notifications nicely with steemit.

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## Followers and Following Lists
There was a bug with these only showing the first 100 in the tables, so first, this is corrected and the tables show every follower.  Also, when you load the followers list, it will now show you any new followers or lost followers since the last time you checked, which is a great way to check out the followers' blogs and see if you want to follow them back. 
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#### Copy from followers, following lists.  
On the right of these views, there is a copy button you can use to copy and paste your list of followers.  Use this to easily copy some of them into your filters.

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## Tables Can Now be Sorted in Reverse
Thanks to @rubenalexander for this suggestion, you can now click the table headers to sort ascending and click them again to sort in descending order.  Works great in the followers tables to find who you are most interested in.

## Stats Bar
The upper stats bar now shows a bit more about your voting. The Advanced, Blogs and Vote Copy items are from your three voting filters and they will be colored as red or green, so you easily know if each of them is running or not.
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## Vote Queue
The vote queue shows what TYPE of vote each item is so you know.
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## Vote History
The vote history page now shows all types of votes, favorites, auto, copy or manual in its list so you can easily review your votes.

## Side Bar Search
Added a search field that uses steemshovel for very nice search results, unlike the built in google search at steemit. @kaptainkrayola

Using this search opens the results in another page, but the results look great so I just had to include this cool service!
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## Side Bar Steemit Help
This awesome help site is a great resource for all things steemit so I just had to include it. Thanks @thecryptofiend

## Improved NSFW
The voting page that shows live blog posts as they occur was still showing nsfw images.  This is now checked and masked out anytime a post is nsfw and you have it set to hidden in your options.
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As usual, I'd appreciate any feedback, suggestions, reviews and resteems.  I'm hoping the next release will have full browsing of steemit and I have a few other ideas I may implement. 

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Here's my previous post announcements if you want to explore more of the features outlined in these previous release posts:
- https://steemitimages.com/64x64/https://steemitimages.com/256x512/https://snag.gy/HWyIJt.jpg [AutoSteem 1.1 Release - Updates and Features + Gallery](https://steemit.com/steemit/@unipsycho/autosteem-1-1-release-updates-and-features-gallery)

- https://steemitimages.com/64x64/https://autosteem.learnthis.ca/Screenshots/Auto-steem%20V1.PNG [Announcing AutoSteem - An automation tool for voting, curating and browsing Steemit!](https://steemit.com/steemit/@unipsycho/announcing-autosteem-an-automation-tool-for-voting-curating-and-browsing-steemit)