I spend 10-60 hours a week...nor do I want this platform to have any more of this garbage than it already has.
My question would be:
Then why do you continue with the bid bot in the first place?
We see the effects that they’ve had on the platform. We see them being abused by spammers, plagiarists, and shitposters. You’re never going to be able to get ahead of these people...it’s always a game of catch-up by its very nature. The effort to keep a blacklist is almost completely futile. Anyone can create a new account and go right back to abusing them.
These bid bots are what the “abusers” are able to use to buy their reputations, visibility, and to make a profit. It seems to me that the bid bot “owners” are mostly responsible for the current situation. There’s no ability to abuse bid bots if there weren’t other users running the bid bots...and other users delegating to them.
We can only blame the code to a certain extent. The rest of the blame falls on the opportunists that are capitalizing on those shitty blockchain protocols.
If we were to get rid of delegation (roll back HF18), how many of these high-powered bid bots would still exist?
For the record: It’s the protocols that ultimately need to be fixed - not bid bots. The hard forks that were implemented last year are clearly not working. Delegation, linearity, and the 10-vote target improved nothing. In fact, these things have made the environment/behavior here much worse.
But it’s obvious that this won’t be corrected with the current “leadership” around here. It’s a shame, really.
RE: Fighting spam, dealing with losers, and why no one gives a fuck