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Except, it's usually not "low value" articles that use those.

It's always shitposters like this https://peakd.com/entertainment/@apon6431/re-steemlove1-q7ojp5.

Bots are terrible because they never do quality check. Eventually, we just repeat what happened on Steem for years.

That is another thing that I was thinking these days also when I saw this publication, we would have to ask the developers to see what they think about this.

What they need to do is to hire actual curators if they don't want to do it themselves.

Often, it winds up being something like "we will just deny service if it's flagged by x account." That opens up even more issues.

The best tool to support low value articles is actually building a following through engagement. Bid bots are a one-way road to downvotesville.