I'm not sure if someone else has talked about this idea or if it's even viable but here it goes...
Make an algorithm that instantly deducts votes from bid bots on the trending and hot tabs and only show the real votes and value from trails or from regular votes done by regular Steemians such as followers and fans. Place all posts that use bid bots on the "Promotions tab".
I don't know if I'm explaining myself, the idea is to avoid placing posts that have bid bots votes on the trending and hot pages pages. If Bid bots are for promotion so that's were they should be.
Maybe this could make buying votes from bid bots less attractive or useless but I don't think this is a bad thing. People may start using @smartmarket and @minnowbooster more but I also don't think this is also bad because this way the STEEM and SBD will have a better flow on the platform.
Steemit Inc or some app could also add a number or percentage on the post of the value that was bought or added thanks to bid bots.
Sorry if my English is bad, I am from Mexico. I'm not a developer BTW so maybe I'm talking nonsense.
Hey Eddie, you did fine... There's been a lot of discussions about these ideas and they are being implemented as far as I know on different front ends.
Have you tried steempeak?
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Hey meno! I know of steempeak but I haven't used it enough and I don't know all the features.
Does it have this kind of filters?
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