I don't understand why you are being blamed for something you're not even responsible for? Is it because you've been blacklisting abusive bot users and people thought it's your responsibility to police the platform? Your anger and frustration is undertandable, after all it's not fair to blame you for this abusive use of bots just because you operate your own bid bot. Cheer up @themarkymark you didn't do anything wrong and have nothing to be ashamed of.
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It’s because I spoke up and all of a sudden it’s my fault. It’s not the first time this week I ran into the same situation.
Because your "service" ruins the meaning of having actually good quality content.
Now, because votes can be bought, a picture of catshit can trend.
Votes will be bought with or without bots, they will be done privately without any transparency (which they already happens, what you think trending is?)
Every platform has advertising, and those who buy advertising do better. There is no way around it, give it time and there will be sponsored content from big brands all over the place.
Oh Jesus, I guess you are right. Is there really nothing we can do against it? Maybe I start liking the flag then.
50/50 curation might get people to vote for others more. But I think the biggest issue is spam and abuse, that's why I spend so much time on it.
There is so much going on that is being rewarded that just drains the credibility and resources from the platform. For example @auctionator, it will just go on forever, and this isn't even the big ones and it doesn't use any voting bots.
There needs to be strong anti-abuse with more resources and power to penalize it. Voting bot abuse would easily fixed if when it was discovered it was easy to counter their rewards to make it a loss for them.
I agree. How could that be done? I guess there is no lobby for that on Steemit yet? Could voting-bots be made to detect abuse automatically? Or should bot-promoted posts be highlighted as promoted? Or should the height of bids or bot-votes be regulated? What's your opinion?
SteemCleaners or some other consensus group needs to have enough SteemPower to counter the amount of abuse on a daily basis.
End users don't want to and shouldn't have to sacrifice their rewards to clean the platform. WIth an elevated peg giving massive post rewards that certainly won't happen now.