It will only take the design of a decentralized anonymous CAPCHA to change that and the will of witnesses to make that happen. Throwung up your hands and saying it is baked in sounds lacking in leadership on this issue to me.
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I unlike most witnesses don't have a bid bot. Many of them support and own bid bots. I am not for nor against. It's not an excuse it's a fact. It is anarchy and proof of stake. I definitely would like to see better filtering no doubt. But we can't enforce policy to regulate as that isn't decentralization. We need a better way to go about this. My explanation of something (good or bad) for purposes of education on Steem is a positive contribution to knowledge.
So let's imagine that a decentralized anonymous CAPCHA was released tomorrow and added to the next fork for witness approval and you were in the sacred 20 would you vote for, against or abstain for the fork with a CAPCHA option which would make bots non-functional.?
I would vote for given it provided a viable solution. Like would every transaction have a capcha? Would that impede more than it would help?
Cool. My vision is that should such a CAPCHA be designed then upvotes using it would designate greater rewards than those that did not. Thanks for your feedback Scott.
Makes sense although I doubt having it so that only if you type a capcha you earn more and if you don't you earn less as being a fair and reasonable solution. It may have to be less biased.
Perhaps having the CAPCHA as a tool for SMT Distributors would be a good start.
Have sketched things in a bit further in a recent blog post. The link is included for your reading pleasure.
https://steemit.com/steem/@novacadian/a-decentralized-capcha-annonymous-proof-of-brain-verification