Pharesim, I'm brainstorming here. Let me know what you think. You can be Herzogian if you want.
There was this little bot, tracking these vote purchases. Then, this bot, after the vote purchase was done (usually on the first day after the post). It would comment on the post the information.
Example.
Hello There. I'm transparency Bot. This post was upvoted by vote selling services. The Vote sellers are:
The total amount of Purchased votes total: $3.57
Can make their own mind about what to do with this information. Meaning, they can elect to downvote (if over rewarded, for example, no effort, etc) or, they can leave a comment saying "Hey dude.. whatacrap?". Also, curation teams would quickly know said post would not qualify to get curated.
Maybe the vote buyer would get angry at the transparency bot and downvote it. So, a layer of protection would have to be made as well.
Some of us, I volunteer, would setup an autovote to be triggered if it gets downvoted into invisibility. Shields of a sort.
Whatever tokens the little bot makes, cuz it might accumulate, it would just burn to null.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
To put 100 hive of my own towards a fund to have this developed, and commit as I said to help defend the bot.
@transparencybot
RE: Hive L2 - return of the bidbots