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RE: Why didn't facebook implement the dislike button?
I think the problem, if it is just one problem, is bots. No matter what the design, the bots will jump on any small imbalance and create an increasingly smaller number of highly upvoted posts. Somebody wrote a post a month or two ago about the real value on social media: attention. If upvoting required some hugely ugly and inelegant capcha, then @user will know for sure they are giving attention, and perhaps give more thought to curation, and the bots could go .... somewhere else.
[EDIT] And filling in the ugly capcha could be rewarded by a very small payment from a faucet.
I would love to lose the bots. I wrote a post myself a good while back about the attention economy and so did my brother @demotruk. If the bots cannot be stopped then it needs to be profitable to vote manually. Which would mean people putting real subjective thought into how they vote - something bots don't do as they follow a set of rules and don't really evaluate content. I think if manual curators are less predictable then the bots will have a harder time chasing the rewards.
I would like to see this idea fleshed out. As I currently understand it, there is no way to prohibit bots (because of the open API). "people putting real subjective thought into how they vote" is extremely ill defined and if it were to work in any way like the Steem we have, it would need to be worked into the game theory.
The problem is that we as people are pretty predictable. I know there are a few amazing AI bots out there, like @biophil 's is supposed to be, that do not just chase whales.
In my view, we need to offer alternative bots that are not purely interested in rewards, at least as an option. That was one of my goals with my own bot 🙂
This is not possible on the Steem blockchain, but could be on Steemit.com
So the bots could easily get around it, as things stand right now?
@richardjuckes yes, it's impossible to prevent bots on the Steem blockchain.
Personally, I don't think it is desirable to stop bots either.
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Yes. A Capcha is a web front end "wall". For it to work, the only way to access the web service must be through a managed website, or with managed access to the backend. Steem is accessible directly to the backend.
I'll actually be posting about it today and laying out why in detail.
Another solution will have to be thought of, or another way of thinking about the problem.