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ok, i apologise for my dreadful attempt at russian. I translated it with google translate. I can almost phonetically read russian because I know a fair bit of bulgarian, but I'll leave that aside for a moment.

Regarding the issue of bots. I don't think that there is any way to get rid of them. There is no human force acting in this place with the power to do this. There is no moderators, only the collective action of the participants. Moderators are trusted third parties and indeed, their performance makes or breaks the community as a whole.

It is a stated objective of the Steem project, to attempt to empower the users themselves to act as the gatekeepers for this kind of behaviour, as well as altering the algorithms to eliminate the opportunities for automated gaming of the scores and votes to benefit their operators.

In fact, I made these posts because I was testing a python script that tunes into the stream of new posts and then automatically votes on some prescribed user or users who might appear in the stream. I was working, for a little while, with a very irritable german I bumped into in the #dev chatroom.

Anyway, no matter. I am not so interested in automation, personally, my focus is more about better interfaces and expanding and personalising the filters for users. I think that it won't be too long before there is no real money in running bots anyway. It is intended by the design to aim toward eliminating these kinds of methods of exploitation. However, having said that, there is tasks that can be automated, they just won't be ones that are profitable, maybe just enhance the comfort and pleasure of users. That's what I am most interested to put into the applications I want to build.