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RE: #project-smackdown week 4 report - last report on v1 algorithm
You are right about that, hopefully these services will have their own ways to detect abuse perpetrated by their service and will blacklist the account that create spam content to upvote it with their service.
I just posted https://steemit.com/steemit/@emble/top-posts-on-steemit-one-year-ago-today-2-aug-14-16-top-author-payout-usd8589-to-dogcoin-creator
You can see there a quote of @dantheman exactly a year ago and you realise that dan wasn't so excited that bots upvote randomly on steem.
These bots are money making machines and do everything but advancing steemit platform.