RE: Are Curation Rewards The Real Problem?
Yup, I mentioned that to senseiteekay yesterday.
Modify the requirement that you need a media screen present. Bots don't have media screens. Problem solved there. That means a monitor needs to be present, that means someone with an actual computer. Maybe this can be bypassed I don't know, but it's a start!
The voting would change for the better, with more responsibly valued voting to judge content. Maybe all this laziness is what needed to happen to plunge things into chaos and teach people the valuable lesson of the importance of quality in life ;)
When the blind upvote blindly, you get a blind everything, with nothing being valued that way, only a few people who curate and the rest auotupvote a trail, or autovote bots of the same people. Some people will never upvote me because other people they "trust" blindly to curate for them in trails or whatever don't like me, so they will never get any curation rewards from my content, because of this blindness issue.
There is a level of responsibility with our votes not being recognized.
Oh, and how would the value of Steem change if people did that? A LOT! Why? People would see that a community is actually valuing content themselves based on some measures of quality, rather than just focusing on money curation where people don't even judge what gets rewarded themselves... who the fuck would want to invest in a robot land? BAHahaha!
This needs to be tried out. Bots are a big problem on this platform.
One other idea I had was if someone does click into an article the article unfolds upon a user being present in some form ( so it would say view more ) and thus unravel the article upon a click. Only till this happens a upvote can count ?
There's no way to enforce a screen requirement. All the blockchain knows is what the user tells them--it'd be trivial to lie. Or even if there was some scheme to do so the bot could create a hundred instances of itself running in docker, each of which thinks it is connected to a real monitor (but is actually just purely virtual.)
Yup true, forgot about the blockchain LOL, not a regular DB. NO one has to even use steemit to do anything... sigh..
Sounds like it would be difficult.
It would be an interesting experiment. I agree, it would reward different and more content and perhaps better content. Right now we don't know if a vote means, I like this content, or I am hoping for a reward, or my bot follows Bob's Bot. It would be nice to know.