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RE: Hunting bots with Python (and love)
Yeah, machine learning would be a much better approach, but a lot more work. Bot authors can read this and code around it, though they would probably have to forfeit some curation reward (e.g. pretend sleeping).
I just thought of something. How about taking into account if they have a valid proof photo as a metric? That would mean looking into their posts for something tagged introduceyourself, then parsing it to look for a photo. It gets a bit hairy while looking for the steemit written in paper, but I guess that's the general gist. I know not everyone has a verification post (I certainly don't) but it could help weeding out bots.