I've been blogging here on this blockchain for almost 7 years now and for as long as I can remember there have always been Bots making Comments on posts. Most of the time there is some support or promotion involved and you kind of get used to them because they're adding value in some way.
For a long time I've always made it policy to Upvote ALL the Human Comments on my posts because Firstly - I like to encourage engagement and reward people who add value to my post by making good comments and Secondly - it pushes the human comments above all the bot comments so that readers don't have to wade through the spam to get to the extra value of the human comments...but lately this isn't really working because of the emergence of this new breed of Tip Bots
Now I don't want to be an asshole here because I do appreciate getting Upvotes and Tips in various tokens, but lately I've noticed a lot of people using these Tip Bots on my posts where the bots drop fat comment replies in the middle of the comment feed and yet the tokens they are proudly promoting are worth almost nothing. I'd say...less than Dust.
To be brutally honest, I really don't understand why people are using these Tip Bots because I can't personally see any value in them. Of course I want people to still be commenting on my posts, but because the Tip Bot Comments are coming in as replies to Human Comments (rather than just to my post) I can't just push them down to the bottom of my feed by upvoting all the Human Comments. The Bot Comments get a free ride to the top since they are attached to the Human Comments.
What should I do about this? I'm tempted to start Flagging the Bot Comments because eventually they might become invisible, but maybe I should just stop upvoting Human Comments that are summoning these bots? Can anyone explain why these Tip Bots are getting such wide usage so that I can understand better, or suggest a better way for me to curate my comments and yet still encourage engagement on my posts?
