RE: Steem: feature request! Let's make interaction more important!
I think that the idea has merit. Something, anything, needs to be done to help bring some quality content into the eyes of the masses and drop off the shit that bots are willing to upvote. Loved seeing the Pizza guy get smashed to nothing the other day!
Think that comments from any bot would need to be excluded from the calculations, but that should be pretty easy. Also maybe something in the algo that looks at number of characters per comment so it's not just a bunch of comment bots saying nice post and also give more weight to comments that have upvotes.
Would be a lot to factor in and probably not as simple as you think. But it's worth exploring.
Personally I'd rather just see the bots go away or create a filter in the trending and hot pages that removes all weight from bid bots. Then let the real cream rise to the top.
Maybe it isn’t the best idea but it better than standing at the sideline and moan that it is getting worse!
Maybe this gives a smarter person an much better one!
For sure, it's a talking point. My talking point of killing the bots value will never fly, way to many of the top 20 witnesses make a living from delegating SP to bots or run bots.
I have what I think is a real solution to actual paid promotion which everyone claims bid bots are, but it would never fly due to the loss of passive revenue for the whales.
There is the promoting feature, which burns the steem. But like you wrote the whales won’t use it because they don’t get any return!
We could blame the bots but remember if they had no customer they would stop!
Problem is nobody goes to the promoted tab and why would you. That is like if google had 2 sets of search results, paid and curated, which one would you visit?
Well I don’t know. Do you click in the first paid search result when doing a google search.
I rarely.
But I do understand your point!
LOTS of people click the paid results in google. Personally I don't, but I understand what they are.