I see more and more people flagged because they use upvote bots. But the funny thing, that not all of them are downvoted. It seems that there are some bots that are allowed to use. But, can we stop upvote bots at all ? Is that even possible ?
We may have in the future or maybe we already have, those who pay to upvote bots using other ways of payment, paypal for example. We may have people or we may already have those who are upvoted by the owner of the bot because the curation is interesting now on steem. Or we may just have those who are rewarded by someone by paying to the vote.
I mean anyone can send some steem to a bot to reward any other post he likes. Is that possible ? I think it is.
What if the author decide himself to create an other account and send it some steem to make the bot upvote his main account ?
What if bots will accept delegations for upvotes ? We already have some who are delegating for that.
Can we consider applications that are accepting delegations like actifit and partiko I guess that are accepting delegations for those tokens or points as kind of upvote bots ? Can we consider other applications that are selling other kind of tokens or providing other type of service, also a kind of hidden upvote bot ?
I don't really know.
Or there are just allowed bots to use in steem now and if someone will use them will not be flagged. Is there a list of those bots ?
Or maybe there is a certain amount of steem or dollars earned that shouldn't be surpassed ?
Please if you have some power in steem and you are flagging those who are using upvote bots, tell us the new rules we have now in #newsteem.
I'm inviting people from the web to steem and they will ask me such questions that I will need to answer. Please resteem this to help me find the answer.
Anyway, those are my thoughts and I hope someone will give me the answer to them all.
I'm just a minnow in steem who wants the best for this blockchain.