(I've seen people replying to them, thinking those accounts belong to humans).
I have responded to accounts that I knew were bots with the hope that the human BEHIND the bot reads the comment, so I wouldn't necessarily say that all responses to bots are because people are being fooled.
BTW @crypto.piotr, you asked me to let you know when I post anything about Steem... I just did.
Thank you for your comment @happyme!
I was also doing that, but unfortunately I have never got any reply.
I've had no reply from humans as well. Not everyone is diligent about checking their in-box for replies and some blockchain interfaces make it difficult to know which have been read and which have not. When Steemit.com was down due to the DDOS attack just recently, I used Steeve to check my account and I found all my replies looked the same, unlike Steemit.com, who bold unread replies. With bolded responses, I can easily scroll through and see which I have read and which are unread. I'm able to then not miss any opportunity to reply to my responses as appropriate.
Hi @happyme
I decided to leave upvote (even if it's worth nothing) as a way of marking which comments / posts I read already :)
I guess that's one thing that Steemit.com did right: They highlight replies until you open them, that way you see right away what you read and what not.
That's definitely useful feature. But I would be happy to see also notifications system (like the Busy.org one)
Apparently that's coming once we get the wallet out of the main login for security reasons.
I'm very sorry for such a late reply @happyme
I just had a chance to read your comment. Past few days has been quite crazy but I'm finally slowly catching up with work.
Perhaps in the future you can send me memo with 2-3 sentences about your post + link ? What do you think? Otherwise it's so easy to miss your new publications.
Cheers
Piotr
I actually check my replies more often than I check my wallet, so for me, the replies are the place to get noticed.