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RE: Artificial Intelligence on Steemit, LilMiquela and the "un-wisdom" of the crowd
The thing is, busy people will resort to bots, and once the bots have been voting for a particular account, it's possible that the owner of that account starts to see dollar signs and employs a bot to write content.
The moral is that you will need to check your list once a week.
Thanks I will take that advice!
Yeah. I reckon that the wisdom of crowds thing does work to start with.
But any account that is automatically being upvoted will try to increase their output - only its hard to churn out four good posts a day, day in day out. So you either get crappy content that has been forced out, or they've paid someone $2 on iwriter to churn something out, which by definition will be weak and generic, or they employ a bot to spin content.
Maybe you could make your bot more sophisticated so that instead of voting for everything an author puts out, you only vote for that author once a week. That way you arn't incentivising quantity over quality.