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RE: A Method To Combat Upvote Spam Aimed At Maximizing Curation Rewards
The problem is that it's not possible to stop them at the moment and with your change it also won't stop bc they then use higher vote% and split up their SP so that in the end the votes are the same
That is all correct. But creating a new account burns 3 STEEM. :)
And for example a higher threshhold would hurt the minnows/planktons
Not significantly, if at all, as their small-percentage votes fall under the dust threshold anyway if they are the only upvoters.
Atm I am testing to prerun them with a selfvote but it has to have the right timing and vote% to be effective
Yes, it's a delicate business.
Here's a successful upvote spammer:
The upvotes cast by this user are not too small. They make up about 5% of the nearly full voting power of a large dolphin at ~42 000 SP. This user upvotes nearly 200 different accounts around the clock. Among those authors whose posts are upvoted, there are known vote farmers that are currently receiving flak from spam fighters. Nearly 200 SP earned by auto-voting blindly is nothing pleasant to look at. That's 10,000 SP earned per year.
It only costs 3 Steem if the curation farmer doesn't have enough time to wait for a new account or has not enough SP to create one himself. Karja for example can create 4 new accounts each day.
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It's true that there isn't much that can be done about when a large stakeholder is doing it.
But for the small guys the increased cost is an impediment. Let's say you have 100 SP at your disposal. Then it's a different story.