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RE: A Method To Combat Upvote Spam Aimed At Maximizing Curation Rewards
I have indeed noticed those dust votes that you mentioned. I can’t say that I have yet absorbed enough of the dynamics of the steem system to credibly comment on your proposed solution, but it sounds logical. Hopefully those that do understand better will pick up your idea and give it proper consideration!
I hope so, too.
I think the main point here is actually to incentivize people to curate thoughtfully. Curation rewards cannot be directly taken away like author rewards can. But if the profitability of upvote spam is reduced sufficiently, then those who engage in it may stop doing it and end up autovoting a much smaller number of authors. In that case, it is likely that the ones receiving the autovotes will be chosen better. Front running bid bots is already less profitable than it used to be because posts bid botted excessively come under heavy fire in #newsteem.