After running my 100% Upvote Experiment I was already itching to run another fun experiment but wasn't sure what to do. Yesterday after running some tests on a UpVote bot it came to me. Instead of doing a small amount of 100% UpVotes I would instead go the opposite direction and do as many as possible at a very small percentage. This will not only let me give a small boost to as many posts as possible (especially with the recent lack of voting) and answer a few questions along the way like is it more profitable to spread your votes out or be more direct?

Source

The Experiment

It's pretty straight forward

• Create UpVote bot that attempts to UpVote every new post (non-comments)
  (every 3 seconds)
• Add code to comment on as many as possible explaining the experiment
  (every 20 seconds)
• Add fail safe on errors so the bot continues to run without interruption
• Run Bot for 24 Hours
• See What Happens!

The UpVote Bot

from piston.steem import Steem
import os
import json
steem = Steem(wif="WIF")
for c in steem.stream_comments():
try:
if c.is_main_post():
vote = c.upvote(weight = 0.03, voter = "blueorgy")
print("UpVoted post by @"+vote["operations"][0][1]["author"])
reply = c.reply("UpVote Experiment Comment", title='', author='blueorgy')
print("Replied via "+reply["operations"][0][1]["permlink"])
except:
print("...")

Right, Lets Do This Thing

I will start up the bot momentarily