Just to throw a bit of "devil's advocate" work out there, but what would stop those that run the bid bots then placing negligible ($0.001) votes on the content produced by those they want silenced, thus making sure they are also "muted"
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As long as the user interface makes clear that the vote muting has occurred and how to disable the vote muting, the situation should be ok. To be clear, the idea is not to mute the posts themselves in any way, but to just remove the effect of the bids that have been bought from bid bots and other specific accounts. This would change the order of the trending pages without actually hiding any posts.
That's an important clarification you should add to the main post.
That's an important
Clarification you should
Add to the main post.
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No problem, I have now edited the post to make that clearer.
Thats a good point.
I understood the proposal as "let's ignore bidbot votes and see how the trending would look", rather than "let's hide all content with views from the l bidbots".
One could reverse the votes. A small positive vote from a bidbot turned into a small negative.
I guess it would depend on how the muting worked. I was imagining a scenario where users could choose to mute content that had been upvoted by certain accounts (eg bidbits).