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RE: Daily Discussion No. 5: Addressing the Paid Upvote Bot Controversy - Calling a Spade a Spade
Awesome idea!
Unfortunately, the idea is gonna ruffle the feathers of some folks who don't want to lose the cash.
The other problem is properly identifying the voting bots.
It's not like we have an official bot registry (I'm working on that) to track the bots.
It will ruffle some feathers, sure... but mostly the ones who see Steemit as an opportunity to get "money for nothing." And I'm only talking about the "paid upvote" bots here... not individual people's curation bots.
And yes, there would need to be some kind of "upvote service registry" which could be a "community watch" effort... there are enough content creators here who sick and tired of this stuff.
Been working on this for awhile and right now is a good a time as any to release this project:
https://steemit.com/bots/@bot-or-not/bot-or-not-a-modest-proposal
Re-steem if you like!