My opinion, don't run the [**Annoy-o-Tron**](https://www.google.com/search?q=Annoy-o-Tron) bot, since they [**taunt**](https://www.google.com/search?q=taunt+wow) and usually earn you bad rep and likely low profit. Good to keep other bots so far.

To be honest, we DO need people like you.  If nobody tried to "attack" the system, we won't know how weak it is, thus no improvement.

If they are as bad as your content I'd rather not have them active.

@weenis I hate to the the one to tell you but I actually liked your post on using bots responsibly until I came across this.  

Just, wow...  If your bots didn't piss people of enough already this post will. First to $8,000?  WTF are were thinking?!  "First person to buy me a car gets to take my robot dog out back and shoot it, or play with it, in either case I have a new car or maybe pay my bills paid for the year?  "

<facepalm>  If you're so good with bots you should go write a crypto trading bot and go hold the market hostage, not real people FFS...

The problem is that it creates major traffic for the website and decreases profit for everyone else :(

I'd say open-source, otherwise someone will do it eitherway so atleast everyone has access to it.

So basically you are holding the site ransom until you reach a goal of $8000. At which point you will either shut down the useless post generators or release more useless drivel bots?

**DESTROY THE BOTS**

You think you are smart but you are only one person. Your bots have no soul our community does. We are in it for content and innovation, you just want power and money. In the end the universe tends to unfold as it should and everything will be as it should be. You can hack my account and steal my steem, you can do whatever you want but my original written content and my memory will live forever in the steem block chain and I am proud of that! 

https://s31.postimg.org/6f2iy312j/stepbrothers_fell_off_my_dinosaur.gif

Flagged for spamming your post everywhere.

I think I will not gonna take any risk for now

GO AWAY!!!

Dear User known as @weenis 
 Steemit has a BOT problem! Your Vote Counts... Maybe 
 https://steemit.com/steemit/@weenis/bots-steemit-s-first-community-based-decision-on-bots-your-vote-counts-to-be-or-not-to-be-details-inside

@weenis Why are you flagging my really important article men? Remove it please as soon as possible!

What do bots do?

No more bots!!

get rid of annoying bots

Flagging this post because I've seen plenty of links to it spammed on completely unrelated posts. IMO, these bots are not providing value to the ecosystem and, it appears, the community is responding positively to attempts such as the reputation system to remove these "problems." If you want to provide value, then provide it. There's no reason to give people false dichotomies or A/B choices. Most of the bots (other than Cheetah) do not appear to be providing real value right now.

Excellent post!

No more bot!!!!!

I don't want to see the code lost because it is unique and can be classified as a work of art and I do want to see the code released, because I'm an open source, software freedom lover. But, I don't want to see this place turn into a bunch of bots posting content and a bunch of bots voting on it... it would simply be a mining farm instead of social media.

@weenis The problem isn't the bots.  The problem is the owners.

A bot is nothing but a force multiplier for it's owners.
But you have to interact with the community in a responsible manner.

This is why I've been pushing so hard for STEEMBOTS and a voluntary code of conduct, with leashcodes and a bot registry.

I've got 5 bots on here.  One of which is a chatter bot that frequently gets chatted up like a real person, even by people who are seething bot haters.  Never been flagged, never been downvoted and earns about $20 USD a day in upvotes for commentary.  

But you have to know a few things about NLP, and you have to squelch the bot when it has less than 98% probability of formulating a coherent response  from it's ontological matrix.  That means conceptual extraction and having a broad, deep and solid ontology which means letting the other humans train him.  But for that, you have to supervise and own it if people call out your bots.  

Dumping more code for spam bots is going to raise the level of bot hate here.
It's also going to make it harder for those of us who are trying to research human AI interactions and also makes it harder for the police bots and the context aware AI like @jeeves to do their job as well.

The new rules have undoubtedly made it harder for simple bots to get any love.  It has opened significant doors for abusive bots to hammer on people's reputations and it has alienated a lot of people who just want to say simple encouraging things.

However it does provide enormous opportunities for the right kinds of bots, effectively making them uncensorable.  Which was what I was trying to tell Dan but I guess somehow that got missed.

Anyways @weenis , I saw you upvoted the STEEMBOTS thread.  I really hope instead of playing steemit this way, you'll come join us at steembots and learn to build some really cool bots that no one is thinking about right now.  

For instance I have plans to build a bot that can spot catfish and sockpuppets and also detect copyright spam that even cheetah is missing.