# Motivation
----
As content curators, one thing we are always careful of is how we use our voting power. Voting power recharges at a rate of 20% / 24 hours. Unfortunately, if we come across posts within a few minutes or few hours of each other, upvoting them becomes an exercise of sacrifice. We reduce our voting effectiveness in order to save our voting power. 

The reason boils down to needing to submit a vote instantly.  We can avoid this hassle if only there were a feature that allowed us to defer our voting until such a time as our voting power had recharged such that we no longer needed to sacrifice voting effectiveness. What if we could queue up votes for content and let the vote happen in such a way that maximized its benefit?

That's what this bot does. 

> **Notice** this is just an example of the bot. It functions as is and is part of a greater project of examples.

## How it works

### Reply to comments and posts

Use the following template to reply to content you want to upvote.

```
## My Ultimate is Charging

![](https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/500x/71701676/my-ultimate-is-still-charging.jpg)
```

![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1517903558/tfigxeqexspz36pqrkru.png)


The bot uses the reply to determine what content to upvote

### Run the bot

The bot runs in a docker container using the command:

```bash
export STEEM_NAME=<your steem name>
export STEEM_WIF=<your posting key>
docker run -d --rm -e STEEM_NAME=$STEEM_NAME -e STEEM_WIF=$STEEM_WIF r351574nc3/upvote-queue-steem-bot:latest
```

You can also add it to your environment rc:

```bash
STEEM_NAME=<your steem name>
STEEM_WIF=<your posting key>

export STEEM_NAME STEEM_WIF

alias upvote-bot="docker run -d --rm -e STEEM_NAME=$STEEM_NAME -e STEEM_WIF=$STEEM_WIF r351574nc3/upvote-queue-steem-bot:latest"
```

## Requirements

* **[Docker](http://www.docker.io)** this project uses docker, so all requirements are encapsulated within the docker image. The only requirement is to have [docker](https://www.docker.io) installed.

# Roadmap
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* Tutorial for modifying the reply template
* Adjustable/configurable upvote percentage

# Contribution
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* [Submit Pull Request](https://github.com/r351574nc3/steem-bot-examples/pulls)
* [Submit Issue](https://github.com/r351574nc3/steem-bot-example/issues)

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