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RE: Steemit reputation
Voting bots with high reputations help those with low reputations to rise fast. The Steemit reputation system is not calibrated to know the difference between a paid vote from a high reputation bot and an organic high reputation vote.
I think bot votes should come from an account with no posts so it does not affect your reputation. It's easy enough to create one and delegate to it. Bought votes distort things. I don't think they should make a post trend. Of course it's not too hard to use indirect votes to rig things.
You are right. Most of the voting bots have high reputations and a ton of SP so as @mindhunter has pointed out it is definitely skewing the reputation system.