Where else could I name an article, 'Leeching Arseholes!' and get away with it. Don't you just love HIVE and the freedom it gives us?

I'm going to do it, divulge to you all how to exploit my BOT and get FREE votes, bollocks to it all, I don't care.

Leeching Arsehole - I do like that term, but only I will know who the leechers are; that I won't disclose to the public. I don't call anyone out, the name (above) has been obfuscated but suffice to say the one depicted (above) will not get a vote.

Leecher: One who gains HIVE, HP, or HBD and extracts almost all to centralised exchanges such as Binance giving nothing back to the community who fed them.

Let me tell you that coding is part of my profession, but I have never aspired to be anything greater than an Adept level. I can make things work, but there are dudes who I work with that I consider at a genius level.

What I can’t do at work is sprinkle my code with profanity which brings it all to life, and when I mean sprinkle that’s all. Unleashing your code for the first time, and seeing it work its magic is a great feeling.

If you have been in this situation, you will know exactly what I mean. It's thrilling and, yes, very geeky.

Now let's get down to business and explain how to get free votes and exploit what I have created.

First of all, you need to get white-listed. You can ask me, or I will find you. That's likely the hardest step. Last time I asked this question, I added a whole load of accounts.

Some time ago @sagarkothari88 showed me his 'tests' for getting votes via a curation group he's involved with. At this stage of my creation, I had a few checks but not as many as he had added. I was quite impressed with the list.

I am divulging this to encourage better behaviour, or better as I see things. That may not necessarily be everyone's kettle of fish. HIVE is free to do what you want, and that's the joy of it.

Shitposts: BOT has a method of checking the body count of posts. If it's less than a certain figure, it will bypass the post. This is not perfect, and the count is quite low but could exclude art posts or video content.

Powering Down: BOT will not vote on any account, or posts that are powering down. Stop the power down, and you will be eligible again. It does not hold grudges, does not record these actions and everyone powers down from time to time.

Reward.app: Using this service as a beneficiary tells me the poster is only interested in liquid HIVE. It's not conducive to growing your account. This is a per-post action, and if the author does not use 'reward.app' on the post, it will pass.

Delegation: This one is quite controversial and some people like to delegate to the likes of @curangel or @ocdb, which have their curators to look for 'good' posts, vote on your behalf and then send some HIVE your way.

Let's say that if you delegate too much for my liking the BOT will say no. It's not unreasonable and doesn't expect you to keep your entire HP.

ActiFit: While I have no problem with these, I feel many are automated and short. It's all very well boasting about your running, but unless there's more content than the basic stuff, it's going to be passed over. ActiFit content with extra content will pass and be voted on.

Account Integrity Checks: Now comes the meat of this. I am quite a stickler for 'skin in the game'' so composed two different checks. The first one, any account could fail, but that doesn't discount a vote.

Age Vs Stake: You would think an old account from 2016 has some HP? Not always the case. It could be that the account holder is a 'Leeching Arsehole' only content to extract, or it could be that the account has barely been used.

In a latter check situation, the second check would be processed.

All-Time Author & Curation Rewards vs HP: This one is my stickler. If this does not pass, then no vote is guaranteed. You would think that many accounts have at least 33% of their earnings powered up.

I was surprised to see many do and delighted. I want to say.. a big thank you to @arcange for giving me the SQL string to get these values, as I was struggling with it.

@azircon mentioned to me only yesterday about data gathering for Splinterlands content authors. I know he's going to do a post about this soon, so I won't go into it too much.

I painstakingly managed to extract 172 accounts all voted by @steemmonsters and added them to my BOT thinking, 'they are all Leeching Arseholes so won't get a vote anyway'.

I surmised incorrectly that they are all merciless extractors and a surprising amount are at Dolphin level (5000 HP) or greater.

Of course, there are always exceptions, but many such as the above did get a vote.

For me, that is great! I now have approaching 500 potential accounts so when I run it, the votes are distributed more evenly.

Work on the BOT is not finished. I want to check for self-voting and add another check for posts that have duplicate content such as multi-language posts.

I am not against these but as one of my checks is for word count it can skew the vote bonus. More words, a larger bonus. Do you see where I am coming from?

What I would really like is to check the content to see if it's of bullshit flavour. I can't do that yet, as it requires the human eye. I do look at some of these as they trail up my window in https://hivetasks.com/

BOTs are great, but remember to read or skim at least some of the content out there and manually vote a percentage. It can be tough to find, but there are some gems hidden amongst the bulk.

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