Hi Hive account@jaki01, thanks for your inputs and for checking Steeve out!

Would there be a way to count only manual, non-automated upvotes (of course excluding bid bot votes, too)?

That's how we are doing it! As you say, it's not easy, it's probably not 100% yet, but we are doing our best. Also for the engagement we use only activity of our users which goes via Steeve. That also helps with identifying its genuineness.

Concerning the comments:

Yes, our plan is to work more on the estimate of quality of engagement in the future, but we had to start somewhere and improve gradually.

That's wrong! Since HF 20 there is a cool-down period instead:

You're right, sorry for the outdated information. But the result is the same, we don't want to make the upvote in the last 12 hours as we would be wasting our voting power.

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