Yeah, I understand. The muting can be understandable since we may curate to reward the sharers which means the bot comment always ends up at the top of comments - something I think is not very nice or aesthetic. (I wish front-end owners would create some kind of list so we can place known bot comments in it so it'd always place bot comments in a different section under regular user comments - but people have ignored my idea there).
I also agree that if some authors really don't want their post shared they could just tag the sharer and ask them not to share anymore, there could then be other sharers replacing them so it may be a bit annoying for authors to keep asking new sharers not to share their content and for the sharers to keep tabs on who they can't share content on. Hopefully it's not going to become a big issue in the future.
One thing I however don't agree with, which a comment in this post made apparent. Is that authors shouldn't feel like redditposh is "taking rewards from them" or that they should get a bigger share of the 80/20 sharer/author split we currently have built in. Authors are already getting very, very well rewarded considering 50/50 author/curator and that being ~65% of all new Hive coming into existence. Redditposh is only sending out around 2000 hive per week to sharers currently which is only a fraction of what authors make. So that's kind of my only "beef" so to speak, it feels a bit like entitlement that authors want even more rewards or think that sharing and the work surrounding that is "easy" and not valuable compared to creating and posting content. If it was so easy people would've done it before POSH existed but matter of a fact is that close to no one did and we now finally have some dedicated users who've learned how to share on reddit and are bringing some value to our content. Hope you understand what I mean there having been here a long time and witnessed things!
Another cool thing about this is, that once front-ends start generating some real adrevenue, peakd for instance is experimenting with it currently, posh may assist them to generate more which helps hive even more and everyone involved.
I have no plans to silence the @redditposh bot at all. I think it's valuable for Hive to have a presence outside the box, to have a presence in other spaces. We're all in this ecosystem to grow, and I agree with you that it's valuable to give the platform a presence.
I doubt this situation will become a problem, and I've brought this to your attention because some users have expressed discomfort about it, although I believe that with your comprehensive explanation and the approach you've outlined, everything will flow smoothly.
From what I've gathered in previous conversations with users, authors in general aren't really demanding more rewards; they just feel somewhat "invaded," so to speak, by their posts. They're happy to have their efforts recognized by curatorial whales and projects like yours.
What you're saying about the fronts is great, and if Posh can help, that's great! Anything that contributes to the growth of the ecosystem is welcome.