Hi @exyle, thanks for bringing a good point.
We've discussed about the ranking system for long, and we've attempted to exclude the posts that used bid bots on the ranking system. But it was not effective because there are too many types of voting bots and also group voting pools. It's almost impossible to limit all these attempts which occupies most of current votings on Steemit.
Our next approach is to make account based voting system. We are trying to make a default ranking based on the whitelist which is formed by hunters who have at least 3 approved hunts so far.
We're still discussing on our Discord channel to find out the best way to make this platform is true product influencer's place. Anyone is welcome to suggest good opinion here - https://discord.gg/mWXpgks
Thanks again for your post!
Thanks for your reply. You guys have already shown to be creative thinkers when it comes to funding. So I'm looking forward to see what you guys will come up with in the future. I think it's a great project and I love following it.
@exyle thank you for an amazing post.
I never heard about steemhunt before and i will definetly try to figure out what is their business model.
yours
Piotr
The user at the top of the last couple of daily ranks isn't using a bidbot per se... so the bidbot blacklist wouldn't work in this scenario. They're using Smartsteem, which organizes random users who are selling their VP - so different names are appearing for each post with the big upvotes.
There was a solution raised in the Discord of limiting the amount of times the same user could be in the top positions, or top 10... with lower upvote percentages to share around the upvotes a little bit... obviously this would disrupt the Top 10 rankings, and maybe cause people to create numerous accounts, but I think it's an idea worth investigating since a bit bot blacklist wouldn't apply in this scenario.
We are testing @fknmayhem's theory too now. We will find out the best solution anyway cause so many great people like you guys keep suggesting great ideas :)