Don't question it, but be happy 8-).
While it is still up to the community to find and report which upvotes might be less than fortunate, at least some bidbot owners show a little accountability and responsibility by reacting and removing votes. Most don't.
While we still think bidbots and especially delegating to them are key factors in the degeneration of Steemit, at least we can now say that some are more equal than others.
This is also why we think it is a good idea to flag the comments left by bidbots that take no responsibility at all, after all, accountability is a many-splendoured thing and rejecting all responsibility for voting behaviour should at least reflect in the reputation number of said bidbots.
Why should they be beyond the community's scrutiny?
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-).