the bidbots and vote selling needs to be disincentived to bring it in line with the incentives of acting well (real curation)

Apart from powerful players in the system flagging (whales), but maybe by checking/verifying recent transfers to the bot account, then if they vote on the post in the memo do something about it?

What consequence is to be applied? Invalidating the vote? Reducing the vote power applied? Taking rewards from the person who is buying votes?

I don't think this will ever be coded in though... Pressure from the community is what is required. That means people need to unite to form a consensus on what to do to reverse current behavioral patterns being created on the platform. But... too much focus on making money and getting attention... so getting enough people to form a consensus on the problem is small... We would need a group account that could take delegated power if flagging would be applied as the solution to combat the behavior (I don't like flags lol), but it would take a lot of delegated power to go up against millions of SP on multiple bot accounts...

What is the best way to deal with it? Flags to apply consequences to behavior? The ideal is getting them to stop with a rational argument, but do we have one to propose? And if so, I don't think most of them would listen because they just want to make money with their SP, more so than with curation, and it's all automated easy money...