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RE: Introducing Smackdown Kitty
Wait... you're part of a bot that punishes people for making what you deem as "meaningless votes" because their self-votes and don't actually indicate any value in the posts, and you're also the one who created a bot, available on github for anyone, that autovotes based only on a set of criteria, not on the actual value of a post?
And you don't see the hypocrisy here?
Well those are l0k1's words, the meaninglessness of the votes isn't my main contention. For me it is against the purpose of the platform as a social platform. Self voting is just getting a return on your investment, not voting for the best content. The original intent of the platform as captured in the whitepaper is pretty explicit about this.
The main reason I created the vote bot was to give people the option of competing with more skilled users who were already doing this secretly / as closed source at the time I made it. I created it to allow you to be able to model your own voting preferences if you choose to. There is also a planned feature which will allow you to run it as a reading list service so you can get the benefit of the automatic filtering algorithm without autovoting.
But I do take your point that auto votes can be considered to be a bad thing because the content is not read. While some people can do it, all people should be able to. I would probably support a feature which restricted bot access to the blockchain but currently there is no way to do this.
But meanwhile your promoting automated return on your investment actions with one hand, and punishing manual ones with the other.
Outgoing votes are always about more than self reward. Self votes only self rewarding.