RE: Steemit developer curation experiments, brace yourselfs, major changes are coming
The simplest solution to ending the Bot Wars is to remove curation rewards altogether.
In my opinion, curation rewards are a dumb idea anyway. What exactly is "accurate voting" anyway.
All possible solutions will make bot vote gaming involve onerous limitations, whether it's CAPTCHA, limiting votes on a particular user to some rate per time, or PoW anti-spam measures. Removing curation rewards ends the matter. Besides, isn't there something a little anti-decentralisation about curation anyway? Vote it up to the centralised top list of votes to win moneyz. Top Hitz of Steemz. Enjoy the powah of being a Pop-Star-Maker.
C'mon. This goes against everything else this system tries to achieve.
Without curation rewards, there is no reason to robo-vote.
Finally, this robo-voting business is scaring off investors. You can't buy in a ton of steem for investment purposes, power it up to gain the interest accrual benefit, and not have your SP eaten away by these Robo-Whales who game, gain big fast, then power down, and cash out as fast as they can. It goes directly against the purpose of having vested Steem. It is perhaps the biggest problem with Steem, that will slow adoption and investment.
interesting... I feel like agreeing with you, but I was also looking for what alternative rewards system you would propose to replace curation rewards, or maybe you are saying leave everything as is and do not reward anyone for curating, but still pay bloggers for the value of their posts based on upvotes and comments by reputable users