31,299 new users since 4 months ago on Steemit/eSteem/Busy - Slow and Steady growth!
I love it - Steemit is growing, people are posting and it is sustainable growth this time which is good news for investors and media to deal with rational numbers to calculate with. It has almost been a YEAR since the first steem-block was mined and boys and girls has it been a ride :)
It all started as a big sandbox
Four months ago, I made a milestone post welcoming user number 100,000 to Steemit. I did the same when we reached 50,000 Users but then we realized that a lot of these accounts are mining and bot-accounts just representing a 10th or less of the real user base.
So Steemit went through some great serious changes and now the numbers make more sense!
A few changes was introduced to Steemit after that, one of them the requirement of (1) getting an SMS verification embedded to get rid of name-squatters, and (2) Improving the SMS verification to disallow throw-away numbers and verifying over more then one single block which was a glitch that allowed a user to register 7-10 accounts with one SMS and take the free steempower.
Steemit is growing - with real users this time!
A lot of steem-leaks like this has been patched/fixed/repaired/replaced and the result gives us a much more sober calculation of user growth. Reports from blackhats, whitehats and mughats we have learned that it is no longer easy to get a free account on steemit anymore, which makes me very happy when I study the growth in user accounts being created and new users coming to this, eSteem, Busy or other SteemPowered platforms to play - I´m loving it!
So how is My "Vote For Everybody Experiment" going?
When I started this experiment voluntarily with my own account which I have invested with my own money the risk I was facing was to lose curation-rewards. That did not happen at all.
In fact, I discovered the key to unlocking the secret door to maximum curation-rewards for myself while at the same time keeping most of the vote-power to manually curation - Like having the cake and eat it too.
Generosity - The Hidden Easter-Egg in Steemit!
I discovered in this experiment that STEEM has been coded in such a way that you have to be generous towards the masses while the act of selfishness has been erased as a money-making-factor to a certain degree.
Now I need more digits on the vote-sliders to keep up with the user growth!
If I vote for everyone with 1% my voting power stays at 100% all the time. If however, I vote for everyone with 2% my voting power goes down. So what I need is the ability to give something like a 1.50% upvote, I need 2-3 more digits after the decimal divider to avoid recharge breaks. ( @dan, @dantheman, @ned, @sneak )
How I avoid auto-voting for Plagiarism, Scam, Spam and hate-speeches
On Steemit we have some good curation-guilds and individuals who voluntarily providing services for the larger community. For example: if a post has been flagged by @steemcleaners, @blacklist, @cheetah my bot is set to skip voting for those posts, allowing me to examine those skipped accounts manually.
It is important to take the curation-roll as serious as possible because I do not want to reward thieves and parasites with my upvotes, and neither want the rest of the community so voluntarism works when it comes to basic security. These flag-bots provide our upvote-bots with red and green lights in other words, and you can be part of those projects by contact or by invitation.
The Bot I use is FREE and OPEN SOURCE - You can use it too!
On Github you can download the latest version of Steemit-Autovoter So you need to install Python 3.xx since it is a Python-Script. You also need to install #piston by @xeroc after you have installed Python, since well - it is Python-based and this is how you do it:
Installation from shell/terminal
git clone https://github.com/xeroc/piston/releases/tag/0.3.4cd pistonpython3 setup.py install --userNote:The upvote-bot is written for this version of Piston, when there is a Piston 4 compatible version with the upvote-script ready I will post or resteem that information.
Alright - now that Python3 and Piston has been installed successfully on your computer - it is time to run the bot:
Edit the files in a REAL text-editor for coders, and then: Go to your shell and type: python3 votebot_everyone.py and watch the magic happen!
Upvotes can be weighted with a floating number having 2 digits (0.01%). That's the highest granularity that the blockchain allows you to do.
The python-steem libs (and also piston) support that. Just use a float instead of an integer when ever you are asked for a weight. E.g.
Cheers
Wow @xeroc, thanks :) This was very helpful!
Cheers indeed :)
Hi, discovered this article of yours
https://steemit.com/steem/@xeroc/paperwallet-easily-secure-your-account-with-steem-paperwallet-generator
and I'm not sure how/whether I can change my posting and active key after I generate new ones.
Because even when I log in with Owner key I see just option to SHOW keys not change them.
Steemit.com doesn't let you change specific keys unfortunately. They decided to make the UI more user friendly and less complex and thus didn't want to have that option. Only think you can do in steemit.com is to change the "password" which will overwrite the posting and active authority entirely.
Maybe busy.org allows you to change keys directly.
I see... I guess I'll have to try it... reconnaissance by combat :-)
Thanks for the answer anyway!
steemit growth...
thanks for your bot updates !
I like your serious and honest curation expectations.
Thank you @joshbreslauer kind words. :)
So great to see growth! You're like the fairy godfather of Steemit - I always appreciate your votes, thank you for supporting the platform and the new comers to it!
Thank you for being awesome @daisyd :) Glad you got your account back!
Thanks for sharing :) Nice steemit news!
Your welcome, thank you for taking the time to drop a comment :)
What a great article filled of goodness beyond words at this point! Thank you so very much for all that you do on this platform and for the extra goodness you just shared in relation to the curating bot, not that'll be using it as I do it all manually, but the intention is simply highly honourable and kind.
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
I got hit by blacklist for some unknown reason. I think it is a liitle hypocritical to set up an automated downvote bot to stop automated upvotes. Personally, I would rather be upvoted by real people, but I get automated flags all the time, so I'll take all the "up" I can get.
Thanks for the update and explanations! I'm a relative newcomer, but I see a lot of potential here, and can only hope (as a blogger and writer) that actual content of value is a solid part of mix and plan going forward... and that worthy content is rewarded and meaningless filler curated to some dark basement somewhere.
There are lots of things I still don't understand here, but I'll be trying to learn... still trying to determine if (for example) "external eyeballs" (from social media, other web sites, blogs) even have any bearing on what happens here. Onwards!
Good to see growth, there is a lot of potential here.
Yes indeed. A peek under the hood of Steemit reveals an effective machine. Top Notch - The Definition of Hi-Tech.
It is indeed encouraging to see the user growth, but I'd also like to see how many users are actually achieving a meaningful level of Steem Power, to the point where their votes matter. Curation guilds are all well and good, and they are helping to spread the voting love, but I still see far too much Steem Power concentrated in far too few accounts. I have well over 200 followers now, but only a handful actually have enough voting power to matter, so without support of the whales / guilds I make < $1 per post. Would be interesting to see stats on how many users per month are passing some threshold, say 10,000 SP, and then track how that number changes over time.
And thanks for sharing your bot info, by the way. I keep meaning to sit down and tinker with bot code someday, but never seem to find the time. I guess I'm getting spoiled with the ease of Steem Voter!
Resteemed this excellent post