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RE: Sticky fingers in the Bidbot jar...
Ding ding ding ding! The issue of bid bots and people claiming that they are stealing from the reward pool, all wrapped up in a neat little bow right here. Forget all the little arguments about good bots vs bad bots vs whatever- this is where the problem lies with selling votes. I believe it was @lexiconical who asked the question during a radio show- what can we do about it? How do we stop bots? Will community pressure stop it from happening? What would it take to get bid bot owners to put a cap? And how can we get people who have power involved in fixing this, if they even want to fix it?
what we need to do is keep the discussion happening, to put pressure on these abusers til its not worth the cost of working the system.
Probably one of the only ways to control this problem right now would be to have a cap on the bidbots. That limits how much can be pulled from the bot. Getting all the bot owners to do that, well, that's another problem. If they normally make money from big bids, they don't have much incentive to put a cap on it.
Amber I suggested that. Capping bots would mean the bidbot owners would lose money. The only way they do make money is to have no caps, because the users who keep bots alive are the abusers who pay $50 at a time. Its a perpetuating system. The other method might be to allow only small bots that are user supported thru delegation. The bidbots in effect have set up a system to not only make money, but siphon off the reward pool. The rest of us are screwed.
I certainly can't argue that.