RE: Bots upvoting posts? An investigation

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Bots upvoting posts? An investigation

in steemit •  9 years ago 

Nice job looking into this. I also wrote a related post today: https://steemit.com/steemit/@jonblack/the-steemit-curation-nightmare-plagarism-spam-bots-ghost-profiles-and-cross-posting.

@chhayll mentioned in a comment that fast upvoting actually has a negative effect, which I hope is true.

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It definitely does - you can see the 2% marker, I believe that implies a 98% penalty. The penalty hits 0% at 30 seconds. Will check out your post.

I was trying to figure what that meant.