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RE: #project-smackdown week 4 report - last report on v1 algorithm
I consider the pay4vote bots to be a separate thing, and I'm not convinced it is an issue (though I'm willing to listen if you have an argument).
We are doing is not invalidated because it does not solve every problem. Self voting by general users needs to be challenged and that's what we're doing here.
Pay4votes means that the votes go to the voter not to author. That's against the whole concept of steeimit to make a business of selling votes and drain the pool for your own benefit, instead of upvoting quality posts. You can see what dan wrote about this a year ago and i quoted him in my post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@emble/top-posts-on-steemit-one-year-ago-today-2-aug-14-16-top-author-payout-usd8589-to-dogcoin-creator
It's clear that steemit rewards were instituted to reward authors - not voters. The same is with curation rewards. They were established to the hard workers that find good content, not to lazyboy bots that don't do anything just voting for specific authors. And that's also addressed in dan's post. Just give a look.