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RE: The seed of self-upvoting was sowed more than 12 months ago, hf19 just watered it.
I don't understand all the ins and outs of this, but it looks like the removal of quadratic voting made it viable to have a mass of low SP bot accounts voting up your posts for a reasonable return. There's no perfect system and there will always be abuse.
It always seems that the same few people head the global trending page. We should hope that curation will at least highlight good posts within a tag and highlight the good comments on each post.
It's all a big experiment and it's fun to watch the outcomes.
The bots are annoying. More annoying are the group voting bots. Join the click (pay) and the voting bot will (supposedly) help you rise to the top. To be honest, I really haven't seen these this minnow projects make much difference.
But what I am discovering is a community of interesting and thoughtful people posting quality content from all walks of life. And it seems to be, they are discovering each other. The more time I invest here, the more worthwhile and rewarding it is becoming.
And I'm not even talking about financial rewards!!!