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RE: Hardfork 20 (“Velocity”) development update
The 30-minute curation window does nothing to stop bots.
The bots just make sure to jump in right at the 30-minute mark.
What if after 30 min window the post was already heavy upvoted and the curation reward for the bot will be minimal? That's the whole idea, without the 15 min windows bots will just upvote in the first second. Than the curation rewards for humans will be very low. We want the opposite.
Exactly!
What we want is curation rewards for actual, significant curation to be higher. Camping for the top posters and waiting to vote (whether after 5-10 minutes or immediately) is not the quality curation that we want to reward humans for doing. I'm perfectly happy letting bots get that (relatively small) portion of the pool and letting humans go elsewhere to curate harder-to-find content.
This situation was very different in the early days with less content, fewer voters, and n^2 rewards. In that environment, the vast majority of the rewards (both posting and curation) went to just a tiny handful of posts from a tiny handful of authors. That's no longer the case.
I understand but without the window the bots can instantly upvote everything with small vote power.