I don’t worry about a robotic Bernie. I worry about the robotic nincompoops who upvote the same worthless users day-in and day-out...sometimes with their huge delegated stake. Kind of like what was just happening with Ned’s delegation. And what has been happening with other “popular” users for over a year now.
A robotic Bernie might actually help with some of that garbage. But @drowningwhale isn’t that, unfortunately.
"I worry about the robotic nincompoops who upvote the same worthless users day-in and day-out"
Would you say auto-voting is a net-negative for the platform? Or is the curation formula the problem?
I don't know enough to say if auto-voting can be disabled (my guess is no, not even mostly), so the only real solution would seem to be changing curation (substantially).
Dead horse, I know.
I blame the algorithm which determines value. Value is a subjective thing which should differ for each user and should not be so simple to exploit as mass votes or high SP votes. There should be far more complex subtleties in the algorithm, including logarithmic scales.
I find it highly ironic that a block chain app intended to be anti censorship has developed quite possibly the most incentivized platform for collectivization, which leads to wide spread censorship of its own curators.