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RE: This hardfork should make some people happy
I'd rather see 6 well thought out posts a day than 20 memes, YouTube videos with no original content, and copycat posts of Trending posts. You aren't limited in what you can comment on and if in fact you are correct then it doesn't have to be a permanent solution. I'm OK with it at the moment.
You really don't understand do you? The bots aren't limited in this regard. You already cannot run a bot by the rules as I understand them.
However there can be unlimited accounts. However many accounts you have social media accounts for. As long as that stands, bot herders will just game the system to make more bots which will make for more bots posting less frequency, making them harder to detect and that's sort of the point I'm getting at.
If you want to kill the bots, talk to people who make the bots and people who pay the people who make bots and the people who run the bots to find out why they are trying to game the system. You'll find that it's mostly to do with force multiplication and the fact that there are decent financial incentives for being a bot herder.
There are much better ways to stop the bots including simply not stopping them, but penalizing them severely when they are found and perhaps even compensating them when they are useful. Frankly @Wang was freakin useful to me, the devs should have made him first and that's the only problem anyone really has with him, he keeps voting for his owner and the people who pay his owner. Way too much weight based on the weight of your purse rather than the weight of your opinion.
If you want to fix the crappy content problem, it would be MUCH more useful to give us a downvote option for every single posting and it would be far more powerful if upvoting and downvoting power were based on how many followers you have, and or your legitimate reputation, rather than how much money you have laying about.
I realize that's a pipe dream. I agree we need a solution, but penalizing the people trying to play by the rules is not going to end well.
Shave the whales and feed the minnows.
Here's a simple solution that could probably be done in 5 lines of code without hardforking the engine...
Just make it so any reply should require a vote of some kind, either up or down, then change the weighting to be per capita. Do that with every post and this problem solves itself.
Have they changed it beyond needing to have a Reddit with positive feedback or a Facebook account? People will always try to game the system, but making it harder to do is a deterrent at least and having multiple accounts only benefits if you generate steem power and transfer it between accounts. You are right, but I still think that a reasonable limit of posts per day will be better in the long run. Not limits on comments and yes bots will have to be addressed as you said, but I don't think it will be as big a problem as you have stated.
I was under the impression this applied to content posts and not comments. If that is the case it will be a major drawback.