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RE: Daily Discussion No. 5: Addressing the Paid Upvote Bot Controversy - Calling a Spade a Spade
....could this be circumnavigated by posting as 'comments' - on another's post?
....could this be circumnavigated by posting as 'comments' - on another's post?
Yes. Comments aren't in the feed. If commenters use bots to upvote their comments, sticking the post - if the author didn't use bots - in the 'promoted' feed would be unfair.
It would work, however, as authors would quickly demand that commenters NOT use bots to upvote their comments, and probably flag such comments into the dirt, with plenty of backup.
Fair or not, I reckon any post, including comments, which contained a paid upvote, being included in the 'promoted' feed, would at least separate them from organic, curated, content.
Edit: as that flagging would remove the promotional vector, I reckon posts that did flag paid vote comments to zero should be removed from 'promoted', and restored to the ordinary feed.
More positive feedback to limit paid promotion.
I don't have enough technical savvy to know how "intelligent" bots can be programmed...