I would suggest to whitelist the good content creators than blacklisting the spammers. I don't know, but I don't think there are 3500 quality content creators who want to use bid bot service, but I know there would be more than 10,000 spammers, and they can always make a new account.
It would take less time to manually select the good content creators than to judge whether a person is a spammer or not.
Recently @minnowbooster applied this process, though not to a complete extent.
But of course, bid bot business will hurt badly if this process is applied, just saying!
Smartsteem.com has been doing this for months now and over 1400 users have been whitelisted so far. https://smartsteem.com/users/whitelist
Appreciate it, do you review the posts of the users who bid big, like 40-50 sbd/steem or more, or is there a cap for maximum bid?
The whitelist is currently only for the direct votes, but not for the bid-bot. Manual reviewing the bids takes a lot of time - but I personally unvoted over 40 posts from one abuse ring.
That's great!
@therealwolf
Does a higher smart score give you a higher curation payout?
very good news and link.thank you.