This type of data is a bit deceiving without context. Afterall, a lot of the steemians on the list are using bidbots so they actually paid quite a large sum to get to the top authors. However, within this context it clearly says something about the steem economics.
Probably what would be the most interesting data is the net profit. I did this a while back for some auto-post bots which were using bidbots. It seemed that they were making a big loss if I considered them over their whole life span. But the last few months they were making a big profit.
We need a bot that detects bid bot use and politely posts this type of data in replies every time someone uses them. This would help by both educating the bidbot customer, and will help make determinations about potential downvotes for abuse.
The sad thing is that it would require little effort from the bidbot owners'part to deal with a large part of the abuse. With a few lines of code they can check if the post has sufficient content to receive a bidbot vote. It is fairly easy to let the script trigger the moment that they receive the bid and then refund the bid if the post doesn't satisfy the constraints :(
You could do this in tiers where votes that meet a certain threshold require the additional check. For the whitelist, include an exclusivity clause that says if antiabuse certified bots are combined with non-certified bots, it results in whitelist removal. From there you can certify bloggers and give them a badge that states they are anti-abuse certified (which could give additional token awards). People wanting to maintain certification would be inclined to use certified bots, and non-certified bots would start experiencing additional pressure and could have their upvotes more easily directly targeted.
This type of data is a bit deceiving without context. Afterall, a lot of the steemians on the list are using bidbots so they actually paid quite a large sum to get to the top authors. However, within this context it clearly says something about the steem economics.
if you want to, you can see everything from a good perspective. :)
Probably what would be the most interesting data is the net profit. I did this a while back for some auto-post bots which were using bidbots. It seemed that they were making a big loss if I considered them over their whole life span. But the last few months they were making a big profit.
We need a bot that detects bid bot use and politely posts this type of data in replies every time someone uses them. This would help by both educating the bidbot customer, and will help make determinations about potential downvotes for abuse.
The sad thing is that it would require little effort from the bidbot owners'part to deal with a large part of the abuse. With a few lines of code they can check if the post has sufficient content to receive a bidbot vote. It is fairly easy to let the script trigger the moment that they receive the bid and then refund the bid if the post doesn't satisfy the constraints :(
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I think the only true 100% anti-abuse friendly bid bot would have a work flow such as this:
User Whitelist --> Automated Content Check --> Human Curation Guild --> (Vote | Refund)
You could do this in tiers where votes that meet a certain threshold require the additional check. For the whitelist, include an exclusivity clause that says if antiabuse certified bots are combined with non-certified bots, it results in whitelist removal. From there you can certify bloggers and give them a badge that states they are anti-abuse certified (which could give additional token awards). People wanting to maintain certification would be inclined to use certified bots, and non-certified bots would start experiencing additional pressure and could have their upvotes more easily directly targeted.