Recently an account that is registered under the name of 'haster' is leaving an automated reply that contains the word: "vzoimnostyu". In many different eastern European languages it is being used in slightly different spelling, in Russion it is: взаимностью. The meaning, being in reciprocity, or for the mutual benefit of something. And when you go look at the replies this bot has been posting you'll see this over and over again. Except for a moment ago when 'it' started to post nonsense about mushrooms. And it seems getting from reputation 32 to 33 made the bot go bonkers. So it must be with a wink, wink, nudge, nudge, fun to do.
When you take a look at the posts that this bot account makes you will notice a certain pattern. Looks like information that has been cleverly autowritten by using a Russian website about tanks. Well, the text appears to be translated from Russian to English by a well known search giant. (Click here to see an example of how good it does a translation job.) The texts do not read that well, but they seem to make sense. Allthough it is just rambling out data, like a bot would do. No, "Hi and how are you?", or "Hey I'm somebody who likes war machines!"
Well, there was one resteem, but that maybe due to the warning for posting to many times in a row by a cleaning bot. To make it seem more real? Well, of course it is real, there is somebody or a group behind an automated content account. And it shows something that might have been overseen so far. Auto created content that was done by using a source in a different language and getting that translated one on one. The account that seems to have mastered this proces using a Russian site to SteemIt, using a translation site, allready got 100 followers and does a good job rising it's reputation. Somewhere it must have started off at 25 too and it just went from 32 to 33.
It actually even made me laugh out loud
Up to the point where the bot maker took to many mushrooms, it deserved kudos, I guess. And it seems there is a market for cleverly using a translation expert site to use content that won't be checked for copy-pasting. Even links to the external site images can be used. And it seems a lot of Steemers were tricked by it and followed the bot account. Now, to me that is just fine, it must have taken a lot of effort to pull this stunt off. Who ever, or what ever, is managing this bot deserves to be payed thanks to it's followers. Keeping the curators alert, because not bot apparently noticed this.
Well, and just like anybody may try to find flaws in any system and try to take 'advantage' of it, so may others respond to it. And even now, any Steemer may actually enjoy the work of that bot. One could see it as a service, auto translating a Russian language based website about tank warfare. Looking at the amount of followers, there is a market for this. Now, I'm more of a love and peace human being, that wants to post original content, as much as possible, just like the photo that I used to accompany this post.
Some tip for the bot maker(s). You seem to have forgotten to mention the source, and by looking at the URL of the images it could be found very easily. Then I used a well known translation engine to look how good the English text turned out to be. And that actually did a good job, so remember to share your earnings with that search giant.
And the main reason I'm putting this in a post is to alert Steemers to have a good look at the content presented. Check the account, before following for instance. And there are some good bots out there and their makers actually are being transparent about it. No problem there, but this one that I mention in this post could be recognized by the content it creates. Well, at least by the comments, allthough I'm looking forward to more fun ones, like the mushrooms reply.
So, you decide if you want to follow an autowriting account that did forget to mention the source of it's posts. Your choice if you vote the translated articles from a Russian source. But I think the owner(s) of the account may have made some miss calculations. Because if those big owning Steem Power accounts found out about this 'trick' to get some value out off the reward pool... Jaiks: взаимностью!
Have a nice one!
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