I'm not sure how all this is calculated or it is possible but would there be someway to differentiate accounts that are auto/bot accounts, be it bid bots or autovote bots/proxy voting and introduce some sort of tax to it?
I think this is not easy to do. Methods could be devised to spot the current voting patterns of auto-vote bots, but those could be overcome easily by algorithm changes by the vote bots, leading to an arms race between the two sides that goes nowhere and just wastes time.
But if a curation trail exists, we can certainly identify the participants, correct? Even if it's only to put them on probation for a couple of weeks? 🤔
Don't know. But it sure would hurt efforts like mine if we can't find a way to reward real curating. 🙁
It would be easy to randomize the timing to make such patterns difficult to identify.
if you give permission to a vote bot service you are penalized with less curation rewards. is that possible? If so, anyone aware of that would immediately remove permissions to those services.
There's no obvious way to do that, unfortunately.