I'm not sure about problem being solved. I get multiple people DMing me offering upvotes for money now. If we chose to "flag everything upvoted by a bot" we would just have them go underground, where they still sell votes off the blockchain where we don't see it and with accounts not everyone knows are bots. (Or at least for some time until we realise that's what they are)
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No it's not "flag everything upvoted by a bot" that i'm recommending, it's "flag bad content that gets large rewards" regardless of the origin of those rewards.
The complaints against the bots are basically due to "bad" or "low value" posts getting high rewards and showing on trending lists. So if there is a concerted effort to downvote those posts then the authors will stop paying to promote them since they will be losing money.
That way it doesn't matter if the votes are bought on or off chain or whatever - if there's poor content with high rewards it should be downvoted until it doesn't have high rewards anymore.
I know you didn't say that, I'm just saying even if everything was flagged, it still wouldn't stop them running the bots and they still won't put up a disclaimer telling their customers "this is not a free market, you may get flagged for subjective reasons". Funny thing about the bid bots, is the less people using them the more profit there if for those who do use them. I think what we need is a hard-fork.
What would you propose for the hard fork?