It's not realistic in my opinion to expect people who have a life to just sit there 24/7 and review articles above a certain amount. I promoted my last post with (among others) a 50 SBD bid through smartsteem. It's a pretty long post, almost 10' reading (about 2000 words), how is the guy behind smartsteem to read all that and decide whether that post is worth 50 or 30 or 200 ? Especially when he has maybe 20 posts like that day-in day-out ?
I think bid bots shouldn't (somehow) be allowed. How to prevent that ... "is left as an exercise for the reader" ... :-)
Well you pay themfor their work. As a curie curator i couldnt tell you how many lines of text i could go through in 2 hours. Probably a 100 posts. And how many 50SBD or 100SBD bid bot payments do you think there are? Not many. You find those willing to do the work and give them a cut. Curators are payed by Curie and all Curie makes is from curation. Not a full blown business like upvote bots.
The problem is that there is no will. And wheres no will theres no action. Outside the coding im positive this could work.