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RE: #project-smackdown week 4 report - last report on v1 algorithm
I don't know why you are downvoting the self-voting people when in the meantime the bots do the same thing. @booster @randowhale @bellyrub @discordia upvote people for money. They get paid the same money they would make upvoting themselves, so instead of upvoting themselves they drain the pool to upvote their payers. I don't see a difference with that.
I consider the pay4vote bots to be a separate thing, and I'm not convinced it is an issue (though I'm willing to listen if you have an argument).
We are doing is not invalidated because it does not solve every problem. Self voting by general users needs to be challenged and that's what we're doing here.
Pay4votes means that the votes go to the voter not to author. That's against the whole concept of steeimit to make a business of selling votes and drain the pool for your own benefit, instead of upvoting quality posts. You can see what dan wrote about this a year ago and i quoted him in my post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@emble/top-posts-on-steemit-one-year-ago-today-2-aug-14-16-top-author-payout-usd8589-to-dogcoin-creator
It's clear that steemit rewards were instituted to reward authors - not voters. The same is with curation rewards. They were established to the hard workers that find good content, not to lazyboy bots that don't do anything just voting for specific authors. And that's also addressed in dan's post. Just give a look.
You are right about that, hopefully these services will have their own ways to detect abuse perpetrated by their service and will blacklist the account that create spam content to upvote it with their service.
I just posted https://steemit.com/steemit/@emble/top-posts-on-steemit-one-year-ago-today-2-aug-14-16-top-author-payout-usd8589-to-dogcoin-creator
You can see there a quote of @dantheman exactly a year ago and you realise that dan wasn't so excited that bots upvote randomly on steem.
These bots are money making machines and do everything but advancing steemit platform.