The downvote pool is not going to fix things like this. The best way to stop this type of behavior is to increase the legitimate demand for the service that the voting bots provide. That service is advertising.
The cost of that advertising is based on a market. There is a limited vote value among the bots, which is the supply, and the people buying the votes is the demand. Right now the demand is so low that buying votes is profitable - meaning that bots are effectively paying you to use them.
If the situation were reversed and there were more legitimate brands or businesses that wanted to promote their posts to trending, then buying votes would cost money - which is how it's supposed to be.
If that were the case, then only people who could actually get value out of promoting their posts (i.e. they have something actually valuable to promote) would pay for the service.
So tl;dr to fix the problem we need to get more legitimate demand for advertising on Steem-based sites.
Or, the bid bots could require rewards to be declined.
The post still trend and get their 'advertising', but their impact on the rest of us would end.
That will never happen because we all know that the true value of advertising here zero.
Very few of us follow what is happening on trending.
85% of my interactions happen via my feed. The rest via dApps. Sometimes I check "New".
If you had something to advertise... Steemit has banners now ;)
Advertising is not an argument I buy
Advertising was an afterthought.
After folks got riled up over the change to pay to play, 'advertising' got the masses back on their porches.
It never was anything more than cover.
Who are they advertising to?
@noganoo's 80k accounts?
Ned?
The ~1200 users?
If they only gave votes to posts with declined rewards or 100% SP it would help as there would be less Steem available to keep buying them. Unfortunately some of them have no morals about who or what they vote on. This harms the image of Steem and the morale of those trying to make it work.
As it stands being on Trending has little benifit as most big users don't look at it. We know it's mostly trash there. I get to see stuff through it being resteemed.
Yep, feeds are where i get things.
Resteems do help me find things.
Let's just hope the folks that did to golos what they did can't do it here, too.
It's true. Trending is really followed by very few people. Most people think Trending is crap and will steer clear of it and only look at their follower's posts.
I agree the downvote pool isn't going to fix it.
I also agree more demand would help.
So would bidbot owners taking responsibilty or stakeholders flagging
I just can't see new traffic coming. I guess we all just wish..
If only there had been more demand to watch this BS. ;)
We had it, but it was kneecapped.
Intentionally, imo.
Makes sense, if there is a, whale there is way 🤗 that's the saying right?
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