RE: Let's talk about voting bots
The community itself was responsible for the "disappearance" of Generation 3 with the #newsteem. The result was satisfactory in my eyes, but the flag wars were extremely unpleasant.
There was at most a verbal uprising against Generation 4. These providers became powerful too quickly, the temptation to achieve a large ROI with little effort was too great - regardless of community interests other than their own.
I also think that they don't want to "destroy" them (there's a lot of talented developer brains behind them), everything has its pros and cons. But everyone should be open to constructive suggestions for change, without condemning one side or the other.
I think your suggestion is very constructive. It may sound complicated at first glance, but it should be feasible.
The only question I have is how manipulable the counter variant would be. Could it be that this is precisely why the counter was once abolished?
I agree with this. I think the flag wars also drove a lot of people away. I was never sure which was "the lesser of two evils".
Exactly. Several of the Gen-4 bot teams have made positive contributions in other ways (especially upvu that I'm aware of). There are one or two that I'm suspicious of, but I think the dominant ones actually do want the ecosystem to succeed.
Yeah, that's definitely a point that would need careful attention. I'm sure that a lot of effort has gone into view counting technologies, so I imagine it should be possible to implement, but I honestly don't know. I guess there would be a perpetual cat & mouse game to be played with fraudsters...
As with every new development... 🤦♀️
Well, they are a bit useful though: they help to identify and plug holes in the system... 🤷♀️