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RE: Official Launch of the #ivoted initiative
I've tagged you in a comment on someone's post @ivoted?
How will we know if the service is working?
My only slight concern with it is that people will just randomly upvote witnesses in the top 50 just to get your upvotes.
If votes for witnesses aren't carefully considered that the object will be defeated.
I can tell you that your mention of the bot has been detected and you're now in the database.
Nothing was put in place to let people know if that worked (but it works) :
So for now, you just have to trust the bot. It will soon begin upvoting, when it reaches a certain number of witness votes for all participants (2500 so 84 subscribers if each has his 30 witness votes distributed, as said in the post).
For now, we're at 5 participants (totalling 84 witness votes).
For your concern, it's totally legitimate and we're thinking of a solution (and already have some ideas, we will present them in due time). But for now, it seems nobody is abusing it at all.
Thanks for the confirmation @algo.coder.
I think a solution to detect people adding a load of the top 50 witnesses in a short time is a bit a priority because once those vote are there they are there.
Glad to hear you're working on it. 😊
We plan to encourage users to set us (or provide a list of potential proxies) as proxy instead of voting randomly. This would be even easier for them and the proxy would make a better use of their voice.
This would be a first step.