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RE: Towards a reputation system suitable for SteemSTEM
Hi @lemouth, nice post.
My question is how do you treat bought bids? People using Bidbots are actually paying for bids and is thus gaining reputation, which they did not earn. In theory I can buy myself into the top reputation spot by buying a lot of votes!! This is against the principal of good content being rewarded!!
This is not possible here, as only posts voted by @steemstem and the value of the sole @steemstem upvote conribute to the reputation score. In this way, even if they are 1324 other votes to a post, they just give a sum of 0. This ensures that reputation cannot be obtained otherwise than through:
I hope this clarifies, otherwise please come back to me :)
Thank you, it does clarify.