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RE: Transparency Bot is going online to help fight the rampant rise in bidbots and their long term devastating effect on our platform.
I prefer if you did not post your crap post on my blog. If someone wanted to check if a person is useing a bid bot, they can just look at your wallet and see every transaction that he/she made.
Your auto post on a blog looks like shit and does not need to be there. It's like spam and most people see that as crap.
Look for a better way to find the crap posters and people who are raping the rewards pool.
I find this funny, because I clicked on the replies tab for @transparencybot just to read the comments like this that I knew would likely exist.
The tides are turning against bid bots, and you may find that a public service like this attracts a large following... Anyone is free to comment anything they like on any post they like, just as anyone is apparently free to buy votes for their post instead of letting the public at large determine how valuable their post should be.
Not everyone has time to check up on high paying posts to know whether it's genuine value, or whether someone decided their own post should earn more. @transparencybot makes it incredibly easy for people to know at a glance what posts are being massively boosted.
Personally, I think this is great, because I'm one of those people who will check a "high value" post for bot votes. I'm very unlikely to use my own VP to increase a post that's already been artificially inflated by its author... just my two cents, though.
I agree anyone can comment on a post, this is a public platform. But this service is an automated post, not by a person producing a comment directly related to the blog post.
If someone was really interested if a person is using a bot, they can look at the wallet. If they are that interested, it only takes one click.
And what is anyong going to do when they see a post used a bid bot? If it was for $50? Are you going to flag it? What is the outcome?
You are not going to flag every post that uses a bid bot. If you did, you would get so many downvote flags that your future posts would not make .01 for the rest of your time here.
I do agree that some people are abusing the service by gaining 100's of SBD/Steem on every post. They should be the one's who need to be notified of their actions and the impact on the 'trending/hot' page and with the rewards pool.
Bot votes are an automated system. No one read the post that got voted on, but the value of it still increases...
I've flagged many posts for abusing the upvote system, have gotten flags from people for nothing other than the person was butthurt I had the audacity to negate some of those rewards with my democratic vote in one direction or another. I shrug them off.
As I said, the tides are turning against bid bots and their users. The overwhelming use of them has led to such the need for an automated transparency effort.
Could the comment be restructured, sure. Is the whole thing worthless or spam? NO.