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RE: Please ignore my downvotes
I've started on a "demo" mode that uses upvote where non-demo would down-vote that I'll be using in the future. The false positive rate was relatively low, by the way, so most (minimally powered) downvotes seem to have been non-spurious. I think I have a handle on removing the false positives by delaying downvotes to the moment of an actual upvote. But there might be a bigger problem as you point out in the fact that the down-vote is perceived as being targeted against a post, while the concept of this script was attenuation of the paid-for upvote. That is, the upvote is the actual target of the down-vote, not the post itself, and this seems to create a disconnect.
ok.
So are we talking bot accounts up-votes to self, or paid up votes going onto posts by the post owner?
I assumed you were trying to target comments, and votes on comments by same bot/author?
Thanks for the response.
Let me try to elaborate. After posting some flag war analysis's created by a few scripts of mine, I spoke to a few dolphin sized account owners involved in these quarals on discord and gathered some of the reasoning behind their actions. While I don't agree with the retaliation bits, and the idea of attacking bot owners, there are some real concerns about the ethics of what one person referred to as 'self votes by proxy'. If you consider self vote by proxy as done through invocation of a paid for vote bot as something that hurts the reward pool distribution, then attenuating the adverse effects of these 'false' upvote becomes the mirror image of the @freezepeach initiative that aims to attenuate false downvotes.
My hope would be that providing a script like this could help powefull voters to fight the problem they have with this phenomenon without resorting to flag war tactics. That is, I'm hoping to provide good alternatives for flag wars that addresses the real concerns of the flaggers that proxied self votes through pay bots take away from legitimately currated content.
That is 'this' script.
An other script, and the script I'll be running on my own account, addresses a separate issue. The problem with comment bots. That script looks for upvotes of a specific type and again tries to attenuate these. A comment for will often repeat the same or very similar comment to many different posts in the hope to get comment upvotes. This script looks for upvotes by the author of the original post on a comment by an account identified as comment bot and tries to attenuate that upvote with a down-vote.
Hope this takes away a bit of confusion.