Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let you all know that OCD is back at curating undervalued newcomers that write original content!
We had a short break to reasses and are now back at it again. There are quite a few things going on in the background with OCD that I wanted to talk about as well and let the community know.
OCD-bot will soon be finished and running.
The purpose of this bot is to support all unique authors that have been nominated by the OCD team so far, currently over 800 people. The list of those users can be found here if you want to check if you are one of them!
The bot will be a non-profit bot, meaning that all curation rewards earned on it will be sent back 100% to the people delegating. I will also be sacrificing my own curation rewards in order to increase the curation rewards of the OCD-bot by voting after it.
Manual curators have been encouraged for some time now to front-run my votes on nominations by the OCD team for increased curation rewards and knowing they are going to the right place and people. If you have not been aware of this, all you have to do is either vote on the @ocd compilation posts before 30 minutes and/or vote on the nominations inside the posts which will be voted by me usually a day after giving everyone enough time to look through them and curate. It doesn't matter how much of your daily voting percentage you place into them, knowing that that percentage will have increased curation rewards with my votes following. @miniature-tiger wrote a great analysis on the potential curation rewards you can earn by voting on the @ocd posts and nominations which can be found here.
The bot will be voting at the 30 minute mark on all active authors from the list, while attempting to keep a healthy voting percentage depending on the activity. It will need some adjusting for the first couple of weeks until we find an equilibrium. In the meantime more and more authors will be added to the list weekly. There have also been some plans to vote in a reversed way compared to the busy.org bot that votes on everyone writing through busy.org and places votes depending on the SP of the followers that user has, we are thinking of voting higher if you have less followers to encourage a healthy growth of the accounts. This will probably be step 2 of the bots functions to be updated at a later time.
We are also thinking about adding some liquid Steem to the bot so it can send out full curation rewards on a weekly basis to the delegatees while powering down to keep it going. The liquids would decrease the complexity of delegatees having to wait several power downs to receive their full curation rewards earned that week.
We believe that not only will this bot help discourage users from buying votes from middlemen services earning on each purchase, but it will also encourage users from voting more manually and focusing their votes on a wider range of authors and newcomers. Autovote services will have a hard time front-running these authors as they will be new ones daily, even if they somehow manage to do that - the votes will be spread to a wide userbase which is a lot different than it is working right now where they only vote on popular users they know are going to trend for maximized curation rewards.
If you have any questions about the bot or any suggestions on how to improve it, please let us know here in the comment section.
Thank you for reading!
