Yeah I hit up @yabapmatt and he has changed his policy, thankfully. I had attributed his former failure due to greed but maybe I misjudged; however, I can't really overlook the apparent convenience of it as a possible PR move but I am not able to see into the man's heart so just gotta let it be.
I had plans to design a bot to target irresponsible botting when I have time. Basically, if the bot owner fails to unvote blatantly low effort posts multiple times, reasonable attempt was made to address, and it continues, the bot will be designed to flag any bot comments with payout to below dust threshold as a penalty for facilitating and rewarding abuse.
What do you think?
Why limit yourself to bot comments with payout? It is well worth the effort to flag them just to get their rep down.
Here's what we think:
https://steemit.com/piglet/@church-of-piglet/3c1dae-hear-ye-a-short-message-from-the-high-priest-of-the-church-of-piglet-himself
@church-of-piglet
I wholeheartedly agree. If I had the SP to support it, I would do just that.
Targeting the payout comments would by my approach to economize very limited SP.
I'm not sure all that many get upvotes; that could be a problem. Maybe a minimum downvote in all cases, and a bigger one for the ones with pending rewards? After all, it is the thought that counts 8-).