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RE: Changing the Code to Incentivize Curation
The simple way to bypass that is by sending the memo encoded.
I proposed that the homepage get changed to the promoted tab to actually incentivize people to burn SBD in order to gain exposure without inflating their Rep. It will remove all excuse for using bid bots for promotion and in doing so people will feel more ok with flagging abuse, which is why flagging exists and seems like the way to go about it.
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Yup, a good workaround. I'm not sure that can be countered... what about a correlation between who pays and in return get's voted on a post? That would remove most of the efforts, and only those who use alt accounts to bypass it would be doing so. Or just have a list of known bidbots, and annul the author rewards that get applied through bidbot votes and re-allocate those rewards to the pool. Then you don't even need the memo at all.
The homepage change is so simple, yet why haven't the top witnesses agreed to change it? I think most of them are indifferent to vote selling, or actually want it. Also a change of trending page to be measured some other way would also be easy to do. Yet, it's not being done...
I don't know why other than that being an Inc-front end change and not a backend thing. Keeping lists requires centralization, and how would the consensus form? I think that Steemit and @ned needs to step up and rename the index.html to trending and rename promoted to index, then it will remove all excuse for using bidbots for promotion and those that run them will face the music.
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Accounts that have large or many delegations can be suspect as a first filter to look into. Then, transactions can be looked at to see if they receive transfers often and upvote same people who send the transfers. This would identify a vast majority of bots. Checking for refunds/returns is also a cross validation. All it takes is some activity to catch a bidbot account.
Changing the default front page is something that should have been done a year ago... :/
Yes but then we are dealing with centralization, so the question is once more, what will form consensus, one account one vote, stake, a combination?
As for the incredibly simple yet profoundly earthshattering changing of the homepage I haven't heard any contentions to it. If the change happens people will actually have a reason to promote posts, instead of them being obscureAF in a place that seems like the armpit of the community which is avoided by all who sing the "I'm promoting my content" or dance along to "I'm getting exposure".
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