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RE: Do I Like Vote Buying Bots? No (Just to Be Clear)
It's not voter fraud because it's a stretched out analogy that doesn't include a comparable metric/qual for whales and their votes. If we had the equivalent of whales voting in actual elections, MANY more than 2/3 of the people wouldn't vote as that would be clearly unfair. Bots are a consequence of the free market effect indeed: there is a clear demand to Promote things on the Trending Page, and that demand is the problem, not the solution that the free market capitulated with.
The primary intent is to sell a service for others to get more payout on their posts, and that's the primary goal for people to use the bots, no? The advertising in secondary.
What is steem if this is applied as an aggregate methodology? Rather than upvote what we like, we don't offer any free upvotes,a nd we all charge for our upvotes. What does the platform look like then? Why give away free upvotes when others are charging for theirs and making money doing so?
It makes for an interesting test of integrity, this is the chance of people to play casino/house.
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