I absolutely agree, but note that competent scripters can, and do, make their own bots. Somebody makes all the bots. It's not the frontends.
We have several witnesses in the top20 that made their fortunes - and their friends - by that bot invasion that very nearly destroyed the platform. While I am not knowledgeable regarding their conversion to top20 witnesses from bitbot operators, it seem likely that they ended their bidbotting in exchange for the inclusion in the oligarchy that rules Hive.
I am aware that at least one former bidbot still operates on Hive, now as a DV device. It seems these botters are incapable of being prevented on the blockchain, which makes me sad that @ned's attempt to create oracles competent to limit votes to 1/per human user failed.
So, I suggest that it is impossible to be rid of bots without oracles like @ned referred to, as sad as that is. Since Hive is a social interaction, I strongly support that interaction being only between humans. Insofar as we fail to do that, we fail to be a social media platform, and denigrate humanity to the humanity applying to toasters.
Thanks!
Hm. Good point. I don't know script from toilet paper, but couldn't someone then make a bot that blocks downvotes on their posts?
Not without having greater stake. The blockchain is where voting actually occurs, and the front ends are just GUIs.