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RE: Is Reddit Being Overtaken By Bots? Could Steemit Go The Same Way?
Thank you for helping to spawn this discussion, by the way. I obscured your information in the screenshot, just in case you wanted to keep it to a bit more of a private audience.
I know we can't really stop bots, so you are correct in that for now we are just along for the ride.
That's the problem, that because we can't stop them, the bot owners don't even take the time to review the content curating. They always vote for the same author, so no new authors can come in in this closed club. If bots are banned, the site will be controlled by real human and the "trending" will be what's really trending. Remember when there was a bot blackout?
"Remember when there was a bot blackout?"
I do, a problem with the API as I recall. It was a very quiet morning that day on Steemit.
If we can break the self-fulfilling prophecy of "Voting on stuff that makes rewards = curation rewards", then bots wouldn't want to do it...