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RE: Downvote the Trending Trash - Fighting the Good Fight
A downvote trail can be dangerous and damaging Steem. Downvotes need to be taken seriously not in an automated way.
A downvote trail can be dangerous and damaging Steem. Downvotes need to be taken seriously not in an automated way.
I think the bot abuse has got to a boiling point. People are sick of it. Trending is the face of steemit and it looks like a dumpster fire. If I were to look at it today there is no way I would join.
Then people should go shout at Steemit Inc’s door and request a better filtering system. The solution needs to be internal to Steem to be effective or else it’s just a work around which can be worked around
So if you are a Witness isn't that kind of your job to help maintain the integrity of steemit or what is the actual purpose of a witness if not that?
That does not mean I will perform what ever solution someone throw at me. Secondly witness or not I only have about 200SP which would do nothing in downvotes, we maintain the integrity of the Steem network, the trending issue is an issue of Steemit which is just a graphic interface for the Steem blockchain. Witnesses have been trying to fight for better interface and solutions but Steemit In has not done things. People needs to wake up and flood them with requests.
Because Steemit is just an interface that reads the blockchain, if something is not right, just leave Steemit.com and use something else maybe another company can build a better interface, like busy.org for example. Maybe someone can build a website that has a better trending filtering algorithm
Or if you want a trail you may want better rules in the script. Instead of following anyone and downvote whoever they downvote, make the script only downvote for specific blacklisted bid bots and where the total amount used on the bots for the post exceed a certain threshold.
You cannot do anything wrong by automatically downvoting boosted posts.
Not even the official Steemit blog got into trending.
If a downvote trail exists, it can be abused. How can you make sure you’re auto downvote is always downvoting the correct post. I would not trust anyone to downvote on my behalf
That is exactly the point