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RE: Testing If People Read Something Before Letting Them Comment
As in other similar cases, the important thing is to change the balance - in this case the balance between bot-activity and human.
So, instead of making it harder for humans, what about making it harder for bots? For example, use the cookies to verify a real online user and blacklist the bots.
This may stop some of the script-kiddies, but the fundamental issues remain: we can all interact with the blockchain at the system level - if we know how to - and therefore the user interfaces (UIs) such as Steemit have to do something clever that adds to the blockchain a non-trivial parameter.
I don't, as yet, have a great solution to this! :-)
On Steemit, they want bots, so the high SP people can make money curating, since they are discouraged from voting and controlling the allocation of rewards in a small group of highest SP users.
I wish we could all care about doing the best behavior on the platform, but ppl have their own motivations for their own gain.