Clever: People (Or Bots) with low Reputation Get Back By Getting Even More Bots to Upvote Themselves

in #bot8 years ago (edited)

The @steemitlove now has more than 40 bots devoting their lives voting for him. I believe in few days he would be released from the black list. I found that his reputation went from -34,801,721,220,430 to -34,801,162,687,258 in a short while (an increase of 558,533,172 reputation scores). Please see the picture below. (Of course, the 40 bots have to work their ass off ...)


Screenshot took at 7:09 UTC +8

Screenshot took at 7:13 UTC +8

A difference of 235,701,196 in reputation from 7:09 to 7:13 UTC +8

This problem probably derives from that even votes from a low reputation guy would counts when it comes to reputation computation. Such a problem also suggests that absolute number of votes along might be a less preferred indicator in telling whether one is trustworthy.

Probably, steemit needs to implement reputation algorithms like PageRank. But, thanks @vespasky to point out that PageRank is computational intensive, there should be better ideas than mine.

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I will keep one eye on his account, if the reputation score is easy to fake, then it's not reliable.

I just opened it as an issue on github, and hope them to notice this lol

PR is very calculation expensive

I did not know that lol

WOW!
It's INCEPTION for bot-reputation... that becomes scary and could lead to ponzi schemes.
Thanks for noticing that.

Just doing what I should do lol

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