Most of the users of bidbots claim that they do so because they want visibility for their posts
Maybe most users of bidbots claim this but I believe the vast majority of bidbot users do it for profit. Why? Because if you want visibility on the trending page, you need to spend at least 100SBD on bidbots. There aren't that many users who spend that much. Most bidbot users spend much much less. So why bother spending less if it doesn't give you any visibility? The answer must be profit.
The criteria for a post to appear on the trending page should be adjusted.
I agree. This won't eliminate the use of bidbots but maybe it will reduce spending big money on bidbots.
The number of human upvotes not the worth of the upvotes, should also be a factor for a post to be on the trending page.
There are bidbots where the actual voting comes from human accounts. For example, I pay 50SBD to the bidbot and I will get maybe 20-30 votes instead of 1 big vote from the bidbot itself. But your proposal would still be better than the current situation.
Exactly! @adigitalife. With my suggestions, we will be able to separate those who use bidbots for the visibility and those who use it for profit.
That will make it a bit tricky but it is better than counting the worth of a post. There also curation trails with human upvotes that amount to 0.00$. It is a mess, men. I don't know, maybe wiser heads can develop on what I have suggested and come up with something better.
What if a curation trail and a bidbot's trail is counted as one person. Even if it is say curie with over a hundred on its trail, it will amount to one person. That could make it work. In such a case only manual upvotes will be counted. So we will know how many people actually engaged with the post. What do you think?
What would be the purpose of separating the "visibility bidbot users" from the "profit bidbot users"? The users we see on the trending page are just a small fraction of all bidbot users. Let's say 2% of all bidbot users buy their votes for visibility. Then what?
I agree that the trending page right now is useless and should probably be changed with a better algorithm. But I don't think changing the trending page will have much impact on vote buying.
Well as long as vote buying is not the only means of appearing on the trending page, that is a start. Stopping people from buying votes is impossible except the platform itself is restructured in a way where bidbots and other forms of vote buying will not be necessary. Until then, getting it clear that it is not visibility but profit that brings people to vote buying is a start.
For, whoever does the maths will realise that it is those who have money that trend not those who have the community at heart. This also means that the constant harping on community and interaction and engagement.... Is bullshit. The platform only cares about those making money not those making quality content.