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RE: User Authority - A Better Reputation System With Interesting Applications

in #steemdev6 years ago

@cryptoctopus thanks for sharing this great article. My question goes thus; how does one detect an account that's been operated or used by Bot for upvotes and the likes. Cause with the few i came across, it indicate real users on their Bio. Thanks.

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Because UA is a probability distribution, the sum of all absolute UA is equal to the number of accounts in Steem. And the sum of all relative UA is 100%, or 1.

If one bot follows another bot, that could lead to less UA for both bots... It gets pretty math-heavy to try and game UA! ;-)

And of course this is perfect for all genuine minnows working hard on their own accounts: the more real people learn about how great your own content is, the higher your own UA score will grow, all automatically!

If one bot follows another bot, that could lead to less UA for both bots... It gets pretty math-heavy to try and game UA! ;-)

Interesting. I assume a bots with a lot of fake followers will more likely decrease each other's UA if they follow each other right?

With every additional account you follow yourself, the incremental contribution of your own follows decrease.

For example, imagine your own absolute UA score is 100, and you follow 100 people, then (damping factors excluded) you contribute 100/100 = 1 to every account's UA that you follow. If you would then follow an additional 100 accounts, so 200 in total, you then contribute 100/200 = 0.5 to every account's UA that you follow.