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RE: Science plagiarism: Oendertuerk
The sad thing is that it would require little effort from the bidbot owners'part to deal with a large part of the abuse. With a few lines of code they can check if the post has sufficient content to receive a bidbot vote. It is fairly easy to let the script trigger the moment that they receive the bid and then refund the bid if the post doesn't satisfy the constraints :(
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I think the only true 100% anti-abuse friendly bid bot would have a work flow such as this:
User Whitelist --> Automated Content Check --> Human Curation Guild --> (Vote | Refund)
You could do this in tiers where votes that meet a certain threshold require the additional check. For the whitelist, include an exclusivity clause that says if antiabuse certified bots are combined with non-certified bots, it results in whitelist removal. From there you can certify bloggers and give them a badge that states they are anti-abuse certified (which could give additional token awards). People wanting to maintain certification would be inclined to use certified bots, and non-certified bots would start experiencing additional pressure and could have their upvotes more easily directly targeted.