RE: Detailed Opinion on Appropriate Use of Upvote Bots, Bot Abuse, and Quality Content!
Thank you for such a wonderful reply. I loved how you told us about your experience with bots.
"I would like to request people to discuss the effects of bid bots on reputation score system and its repercussions on Steem blockchain. Reputation is only reversible through flags and simple banning won't undo the abuse that happened on an account through bid bots."
It's an invitation to openly discuss what to do with the abuse happening related to reputation score. The reason is that it is not talked about enough or given due importance in my opinion.
Simply banning absusive people from using bots may prevent future abuse but there are two more things which can be done.
Flag unpaid posts enough to stop the rewards going to abusers.
Flag regular abusers enough to nullify the effects of bot votes on their reputation score. Most abusers don't deserve to be above 30 rep and still you can see them well over 50.
I am inviting the community to discuss this part openly and decide to do something about it. I hope you get it now.
I see what you're saying here @ilyastarar, and truthfully, I'm not sure what the answer is; what I can do to contribute is make my own post, as per your suggestion on @inquiringtimes survey post to keep the conversation going. Perhaps the more people who are aware of the abuse, the more chance of something being done.
This is a little off topic, but on the same page as 'abuse of the system'...check out @fulltimegeek's post here: https://steemit.com/mmorpg/@fulltimegeek/steem-quest-1-or-slay-the-cave-troll because I think it will be something worth following. Thank you again for all you do and thank you for your kind response!
it is good to see a number of posts sprouting up in response to this one. Mostly I hoped to encourage community discourse, and help to spread awareness of community values to new users. :) I'm grateful that this is being accomplished.
And that's what it's all about, isn't it?! I am a part of @newbieresteemday, which started out as a resteem initiative, but has turned into an educational, supportive and mentoring program for new and not so new folks here. Hopefully a lot will see my post and redirect to yours and @
@ilyastarar's as well..."spreading awareness of community values to new users" :)
I personally invited a lot of people to add their opinion. Some commented and some made posts. I saw Mark's post as well. It is such a great thing to see the discussion catching on. You have a lot of reading to do I guess.