RE: [ Housekeeping ] Internet gurus, bidbots and fortunes lost
I'm not going to get into all the things that are plainly wrong in this post, I understand you are venting because things are happening that you disagree with, but I would ask instead what you would propose as solutions to some of these problems?
Just complaining doesn't really help get us anywhere. Most bot owners I know are actively looking for solutions to these problems but manually reviewing every post that is submitted for a vote is not a viable solution.
What I think is really important for everyone to understand is that these thing are not up to the bot owners and operators. It is entirely up to the large SP holders on the platform. Bot owners are completely at their mercy - without SP, there is no bot - so they call all the shots on how the bots operate.
This is not venting.
Hire people to manually review the higher bids with a non-refundable percentage if rejected but part of the vote if approved. This would force users to think a bit more for at least the higher bids and will therefore drastically reduce the bullshit that makes it to trending.
The reason owners don't want this is because it is a liability and a stamp of approval and if it ends up getting flagged, it comes back to the bidbots who approved it. So yeah, not viable because that means they need to work somewhat sustainable and take into account the greater ecosystem.
lol, that is not an excuse at all as owners and operators of bots. Sure, if you didn't do it someone else would anyway but, take some responsibility as owners, you aren't helpless bystanders. Blacklists are nonsense in a system that in 2 minutes, another account can be created.
There is so much SP held in the bidbots that no amount of community action can counteract the amount of votes they cast. They could literally only cast votes on blank posts and there is nothing that can be done.
That don't cost and can be done automatically it seems.