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RE: Improving the Curation-Rewards Process via a Significant (though Subtle) Change to Auto-Voting …

in #curation3 years ago

Any button humans can click, a bot can be programmed to click it more regularly.

The idea of having two pools is interesting, because a bot could only compete for one of them, but it is unclear for me that all the bots would stay in the same, over-competed 5 minute pool if there is another pool to hunt in.

I don't even like the idea of 'flagging bots', if we want different things we should propose different rules, not try to attach morality to certain actions - (ie 'asking people to be nice has been tried before' 🤣). Flagging is permitted, but it hasn't shown that it is a very effective way for changing people's behavior.

The question for me is 'Why do we hate bots'? Since a bot is just a way for me to do what I want more regularly - a bot is programmed by a human, and we want human votes presumably. If its because the bot is unfair and not everyone has a bot, then it seems that removing the competition aspect (as LEO did) would be the best way. Everybody gets 50% of their own vote, nobody competes, bots are no longer 'bad'.