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RE: The end of an era - the last truly profitable vote-buying service dries up.
At this point the bidbots are mostly improving Trending, and that's been true for a while now. While there's still some crap there, the decline in profitability is allowing notable projects – which actually benefit from the advertising – to get to the top and stay there more often.
"Organic Trending" is well-used elsewhere and has proven to be a process that leads to Kanye. It's not better.
I've been experimenting with some scripts that create an alt trending page, filtering out known bidbots, known delegator vote bots, self votes, votes by accounts linked through witnesses voting proxy settings and account recovery settings and votes part of an upvotes burst and clockwork votes. The result, a trending list more closely representing true curation looked a whole lot better than the real trending at each test I ran. I'm seriously considering an automated This is what Trending should have looked like this week weekly post. The idea that false curation, in whatever form, is in any way beneficial can easily be shown incorrect. We should be bidding for curation time, not for false curation. Get a real person in the loop.
Is this not what @ trufflepig does?
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