@ihashblox, I'm with you on that. I'm a bit of an IT generalist and have a few ideas about forking Steem to remove the overpowered bots and their primary sponsor, @freedom, who coincidentally has enormous influence as to who the top 20 witnesses are.
It's almost like a cycle of power and I don't see that changing. I think the only reasonable solution for the common man is to fork 'em off and build a new type of Steem. Starting point would be to reappropriate @freedom's stake to something that is actually beneficial to the platform. Currently, I see that account as an overgrown parasite that gets paid to sponsor selling votes and earn curation rewards from accounts that are not actually curating.
Anyways, I haven't really disclosed these ideas to too many and, it sounds crazy. There would be a lot of challenges as much has been built on Steem already but I think there is some potential in the idea. One of the prereqs would be to have a bot that is able to identify vote selling and have a mechanism to counter.
Maybe Steemit or one of the Dapps can add a captcha and then add a special code for approved bots that can automatically vote like @steemauto.
It might be better to regulate bots based on the platform instead of making changes to the Steem blockchain - then the people can decide which platform they enjoy more.
@ihashblox, I'm with you on that. I'm a bit of an IT generalist and have a few ideas about forking Steem to remove the overpowered bots and their primary sponsor, @freedom, who coincidentally has enormous influence as to who the top 20 witnesses are.
It's almost like a cycle of power and I don't see that changing. I think the only reasonable solution for the common man is to fork 'em off and build a new type of Steem. Starting point would be to reappropriate @freedom's stake to something that is actually beneficial to the platform. Currently, I see that account as an overgrown parasite that gets paid to sponsor selling votes and earn curation rewards from accounts that are not actually curating.
Anyways, I haven't really disclosed these ideas to too many and, it sounds crazy. There would be a lot of challenges as much has been built on Steem already but I think there is some potential in the idea. One of the prereqs would be to have a bot that is able to identify vote selling and have a mechanism to counter.
Well I mean it wouldn't be that simple, we'd need a solution like captchas or something, but it would affect more than just bid bots
Captcha is good idea, that can still hinder though other groups like dlive right?
However, abuses are pretty rampant with bots.
Yeah there is no perfect solution it would affect any automated voting
Tough call @scottcbusiness.. @steemauto is a good service.
Maybe Steemit or one of the Dapps can add a captcha and then add a special code for approved bots that can automatically vote like @steemauto.
It might be better to regulate bots based on the platform instead of making changes to the Steem blockchain - then the people can decide which platform they enjoy more.
True, but if it's by platform then if a major platform allows it people will still continue to have the same issues just maybe slightly less