heh.
You are quite right, I will edit that, thank you.
I have added you to ginabot because I am interested to hear what you have to say, thanks for the message.
It's true that a couple of owners have engaged, @themarkymark, @therealwolf, @aggroed to name a few, but the focus of the responses have mainly revolved around Trending.
We all know that Trending is not good, was never that good, and will probably never been of great quality, ever.
Communities and filters will arrive and bot voted posts may well be hidden (if managers can keep up with the new arrivals) and this is will be a good thing for the visibility of 'community agreed quality content' in these communities who choose collectively on what is the best content at that point in time.
However, the situation I and others can see already, is the delegators/owners of bid-bots not caring too much about who sees the posts, just as long as the cash keeps rolling in.
There may be a drop in users of bid-bots - those wanting in on communities who exclude them, and this will improve ROI for someone else who doesn't care less about visibility. They make money, the Bot owner takes the curation, the delegator gets paid.
This is surely not how this place was supposed to be?
If you could include in your post some words around this, that would be great.
Thank you.
@tarazkp - have a ginabot ping on me just in case you've moved on from here already :)