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There seems to be a lot of them lately.
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they are like a swarm of locusts
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they contribute nothing but they take all that you have worked for.
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Those of you who have been reading my posts know that I do NOT like bots
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or Flagging
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I seem to be in the minority
(nothing new)
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I've been told repeatedly that flagging was necessary for Steemit
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and that nothing could be done about 'bots.
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I DISAGREE
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So what can we do about bots rapacious pests?
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Recall the Whale Project some time ago?
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A group of whales decided to down vote OTHER whales for reasons
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I didn't much like it when it was happening.
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I lost a lot of Steem during the process.
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But now I can see the benefits...
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AND
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it set a precident.
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if it's OK to downvote whales
(if you have the SteemPower to survive retaliation)
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If it's OK to HAVE bots on Steemit.
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Then it follows that it would be OK
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to program a bot to downvote other bots.
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(they set the rules)
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In another thread Could this kill Steemit bots?.
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in the comments I said
I agree with you. I've said often and loudly that 'bots have no place on Steemit. Unfortunately I've been told , often and loudly, that the solutions you propose (I said much the same thing) will not work on the blockchain.
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I agree that it's a SERIOUS problem...perhaps as bad as Flaggin (another bad thing)...
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BUT...the powers that be...LIKE bots...they do what you say..they make them easy money.
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I couldn't agree more and I have definitely seendiscuss this before on some similar posts, I believe the problem with implementing this on the blockchain is that Captcha requires a "Centralized Validation", I believe Dan commented about it Here, this problem means that the system would no longer be "Decentralized" as all upvotes and such would have to go through a central system for verification and hence would defeat the purpose of the blockchain.
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I believe the way to deal with this would be to have bots with higher SP (I know Ironic) which would detect bots in terms of their behavior (would detect similarities with comments and be able to identify spam-like comments) and to flag their posts, this is absolutely possible and I have seen and experimented with first hand AI which has sufficient enough language recognition to be able to perform this task.
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I think that would be an EXCELLENT idea. I can see it now...Killer Whale..someone write a 'bot like you speak of...then people who think the way you and I do delegate SteemPower. Then it hunts 'bots.
Make 'bots unprofitable.
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Great name for it! I just made an account with the username;killerbotwhale, Not sure if it will be used for the purpose yet, but if we could get enough support I would definitely be willing to program a TensorFlow AI In order to perform that task
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Yes!
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I think it's a great idea.
Program it to search out and downvote (flag) all spam( follow me and I'll follow you) other beggars and vote-bots. I'd delegate some SP to the project.
So there you have it.
A way to get rid of bots.
Of course this is going to make a great many people unhappy.
Perhaps unhappy enough to remove flaggin
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bots from the code.
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awwww.
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killerbotwhale
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I'd consider delegating a SERIOUS amount of steempower to support this project.
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would you?
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If you would then support 
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send him some $$$