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RE: Auto up-voting is becoming a problem. Will it sort itself out over time?
At a certain point the bots will have to diversify their voting in order to be profitable. When there are thousands of bots chasing hundreds of votes the odds of being early enough will be very high. In a way the voting efficiency will constantly adjust like mining difficulty in POW. Good content creators become the ASIC chips. The bot running will have to continuously find that sweet spot between super popular creators and niche creators.
Thanks, that was the answer I was looking for. You are right in that the chance of getting your vote in early enough gets lower as bots become more popular. One use for autovoting bots will be autovoting yourself, and if anyone competes for the first spot there, it won't be a problem at all.
Interesting. I guess I'm going to write a bot and auto self up voting script and join in. I just felt very bad (I'm one of those people) doing that until I realized that this is an acceptable practice. At least until the 4th or thereafter.
Upvoted, but not sure the math works out because total rewards on a post continue to go up as it receives more votes.