Curators aren't exclusive of authors, in fact it hurts nothing to curate and be an author, so curators don't lose, therefore the idea that curation is exclusive from the rest of the platform isn't at all what is happening. The losers/winners mentality doesn't extend to curating not being rewarded from SBD, even if people make sell vote bots and delegate their SP to those, curation then actually benefits from SBD and kinda invalidates the curators lose.
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There are lots of people who Author and Curate, yes. But there are some who put a lot of time and effort into one or the other. At the start of this year I ditched my Curation effort, delegated my SP to a vote bot and focused my energy on Authoring. Much better for me? Perhaps yes. Is the platform better off if this is a broader trend?
My logic is that if you increase the Curation incentive then there is more Curation and Authors don't need to rely on Vote Bots so much to get exposure.
I guess there will always be vote bots and they are including some standards recently like post age limits (to ensure bots are used for promotion rather than profit incentive) and some bots owners are also doing blacklists and applying some post quality filters. So in a way this is a form of curation but I do think it goes against the spirit of the systems intended decentralised design.
HF17 I think is the correct number - being able to lease your stake. This allowed the vote bots to grow, but it had also allowed the likes of utopian and dtube to attract a lot of new users, thus pushing up the rankings, I presume.
@baah: "IDK where to start with tackling the problem of vote sell bots"
How about you just stop using them and encourage your followers not to use them either, and they encourage their followers....
@buggedout, why not find a real person on here that votes the way you would and delegate to them?
If there is no market for the vote bots, there won't be any vote bots. It's just that simple. Just like throwing drug dealers in jail doesn't solve the problem of drug sales. As long as there are users out there, someone will be selling.