As long as vote buying is profitable it will keep fooling people with shit excuses about "exposure" and I think that without the exposure, much more scummy people will try their hands at vote buying.
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As long as vote buying is profitable it will keep fooling people with shit excuses about "exposure" and I think that without the exposure, much more scummy people will try their hands at vote buying.
I completely disagree.
Right now you dont have many people attacking overpaid posts. One of the reason is the psychological aspect of bots being seen as a marketing tool.
That is the main justification behind their use.
Most bid bot buys net you a loss. Take away the exposure aspect and what are you left with?
A big payout value post no one sees and you losing money.
That destroys the appeal of vote buying greatly.
Profit adjustment from vote sellers would occur which would reduce their profits. Tie that in with 50/50 and having your delegation locked into bid bots that lost the exposure aspect and there being a possibility of high curation returns makes vote selling not the best choice anymore.
Steem is a blockchain everything is transparent. It would take a coder with minimal skill to find the reward pool drainers that no longer have the justification of calling vote buying "marketing".
You now added another reason to flag for people.
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Try it out. If you max the potential buy i.e. buy to top of the trending page you are extremely unlikely to break even.
Well look at who the top buyers are individually. Exposure is a huge part of why they use bots. Hatu, zaku, chbartist, the turkish dude, the bald guy Jerry 2.0...