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RE: Introducing SteemBot, an open source library to easily create real-time automation on top of Steem
Thanks for your work, but I think automation is bad for steemit. It turns steemit into a social bot platform. There are without doubt very useful things you can do with automation, like scheduled posting etc, but upvoting, downvoting etc is a very bad idea and doesn't help steemit grow.
I don't say I will not use it, because if everybody uses it so should I, but bots in general is not good for Steemit. People don't curate anymore, they just upvote the same author again and again.
Automation is used by exchanges to receive their funds. Also for the case of upvote and downvote, many of the spams lately triggered by flagging bots written by developers. Also when it comes to bots, people see spam bots, not seeing the possibility of future for having intelligent bots helping the community in many ways. Think about the possibility of using machine learning algorithms for Steem.
You are right, but the question what will people use it for. When the internet was invented people thought it will be used for good things. But from the beginning on the web became a place for adult content and other illegal stuff, even before the good stuff arrived.
I think that most people will use automation tools for their own benefit, not looking for Steemit's benefit.
What you are trying to imply with your example? That internet is a bad thing because we have adult websites?
That you invent something for the goods, and people take it and use it for the bad. You say that your bot COULD be used for good things, you are right. But you tell me: What do you think people will use it for?
I'm an engineer, I make tools that devs need. The matter that how people are going to use it is irrelevant to me. Some will use it for good and some for bad. I shouldn't limit the knowledge in the fear of bad things happening. That's against freedom and never leads to great results. You think you can stop bad things happening with limiting people to only good? That never worked.