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RE: Steem Survey: Should The Posts That Have Used Bidbots Be Moved to the Promoted Tab?

in #bidbot6 years ago

a) All this would do is cause some bid bots to be more stealthy by registering/delegating more rapidly.
b) Would you ignore bids paid for by someone other than the author?

In the case of a), there will be plenty of bid bots that don't worry about it because the already try to sell ROI, so the author doesn't care where the post is seen.

In the case of b), if someone wants to take a post off of trending, just pay for a bid. But if payor/author are intentionally ignored, what would prevent two authors from paying for the other's posts?

By the way, both a) and b) are examples of sybil, just manifest in different forms.

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Nope, it doesn’t matter who pays for the promotion, all paid Posts from bidbots would be in their natural home: Promoted Tab. Simple yes or no.

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Right, as I said. All I have to do if I don't like someone on trending is pay 0.001 STEEM to a bidbot so they're moved over to the paid posts list that everyone will ignore. Brilliant.

.001 won’t get you most of the bidbots... if you want to pay several Steem to hate on someone..... that’s on you.

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I thought it was a simple yes or no. Now you're setting a threshold. "All paid posts" doesn't mean all. They pay a certain amount, then they're off trending. What's the amount? Sounds like this is getting complicated already.

Or are you saying that merely transferring an amount isn't what filters a post out of trending. It's just the fact that a bitbot happened to vote.

So that just means these bidbots have the power to move everything they don't like out of trending just by voting for it.

You have no idea of the effect of this change. You’re only guessing and your own self-interest is baked into your opinion. My end goal is mass adoption, what’s yours?

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My main goal is to get people excited about the platform so that they implement great new projects that are so good, they bring their own stake to power up their awesome projects. Mass adoption just happens on its own after that.