At what point is enough enough with these mindless auto downvotes?
I'm not the only one targeted and this really isn't about the rewards, but it does affect others who may not know any better and potential relationships with newcomers.
I feel like we need some front-ends to try and do a bit more to mitigate oblivious spam both from bot comments and bot downvotes, maybe even bot upvotes?
Point is, it's been months that some blurt accounts have been downvoting any and all comments and posts myself and a handful of other users post. Many ask about it if you're active and it brings kind of a weird feeling to the scene where they may think they're at risk of befalling the same fate at some point.
The downvotes in question are really tiny, like $0.01 or lower, but it's not just your author rewards it affects, it also affects other voters returns as well as they may vote up your comment only to realize they didn't get any curation rewards for it.
I have a few of these "auto-downvoters", one of them who decided to call it quits and abandon his community cause I asked him for many weeks to stop buying votes and he decided to "get back at me" by autodownvoting anything I and my projects post. Luckily I've received support from more users on top since then to make up for any rewards he thinks he may be taking, but again, it's not really about that. The voters may occur lower curation returns now as well.
Autovotes as you may know are not something I like as most of stakeholders who place them become quite negligent about overviewing if the authors on their autovote or the trail they're following are still on par with the requirements they looked for when they picked to support them with autovotes. So I guess you can imagine that autodownvotes may be another level of shitty.
There's of course simple solutions for these things, if they've bothered to set up all these autodownvotes with some bots, one can simply set up an auto upvoter to counter them. But then you're seen as a "self-voter" and it might make it look worse than it did before that. I guess one could delegate to an account to take care of the countering of everyone involved, I unfortunately don't have the skill to create such a counter bot.
Either way, thought I'd just make a quick shitpost checking what you think of the matter, is there a line where you feel like it's more annoying than "let people do whatever they want with their stake?" Do you feel like it'd be worse to try and counter it?
I really feel like some front-ends should have a list where comments and votes known to be automated are placed on a second tier and either not shown unless you click "show advanced settings" or in the comment sections they'd always be under the real users so they're not always in your face and you have to sift through the bots until you get to see human comments just cause they have a lower reputation.
The "blacklist" wouldn't have to be anything ultimate either, if an account "wakes" up and realizes he's in a blacklist that's not showing their votes or their comments in the "first tier", they could easily apply somehow to be taken off of the list.
Just some thoughts.
