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RE: Voting Abuse and Ineffective Curation: A proposal for blockchain-level change
do you REALLY think there are actual curators?
95% of all voting is by bots.
on my post I'm lucky to get 30% views compared to the number of votes.
the solution to the pollution is to ban all vote bots.
Exactly @everittdmickey. Thats the simple solution to a complex problem. Let's relate with one another as humans again. Voting bots should be gone except those that have been proven to bring value to the steem economy eg @utopian-io. Thanks!
You can't selectively ban bots though. What's the criteria if you do that? And who is the judge of what is a good voting bot and what is a bad voting bot? In a "decentralized" platform, where we can't even get the top 20 witnesses on the same version, what is an easily agreeable set of rules to become a "good" bot?
Even if we were able to ban bots entirely, there would be a next thing that defeats the intent, and a next thing after that. People are always willing to work their asses off not to have to work. It's really strange. Of all the crap posts out there, if the people doing them would take the time to create actual useful content, they might find it less work than screwing the system.
VOTING bots...all bad. Only people should vote.
LEL
I'm so lazy I work my ass off just to get some rest =p
Utopian is not a voting bot. It votes only on varified posts.
Even if it only votes on verified posts, it's voting.
I agree and support your words....bots are the real cause...and my second strong argument is that STEEMIT is a social platform then how can emotionless bot be part of it
You'd ideally use the bot to pick out posts that have certain minimum requirements set by the curator and formulate a list of them.
This is how I find new content.
Throw code at a SQL server to list potential goodies, then go manual and use my eyes n stuff.
right.
in an ideal Steemit..the way it was intended
(based upon the white paper and stuff)
one person...one account.
people read, curate, and maybe vote ..no bots
Agree...
I agree with you...Many mafias and interests will be affected !!
I agree... ban all bots. All regulators should be coming from developers. Bots have no place to real social media platform
I'm a manual curator!
The ONLY kind.
all else is plastic.
How can bots be banned?
I can only think of ways to create disincentives.
apparently they can NOT be banned. Not with out a complete overhaul of the blockchain code.
That might very well do a LOT more harm than good.
Unforeseen consequences is a bitch