So, after my post "Do you pass the Turing test?", a recent conversation went like this:
Can you not agree with what I am saying here? We, both the blog posters and commenters alike need to fight the bot phenomena with the tools we've been given. Those who write, need to write well enough to not be mistaken for bots, and those who curate, must assume every nonsense post or comment is a bot.
The problem we have is we do not yet see bots as a problem that affects both us creators (writers, photographers etc.) and commenters. We all need to up our game, both quality-wise, and policing quality.
Yes we can and must find ways to find out if someone is really a bot or not, but for now we don't really have other tools at our use than flagging.
I do have an idea though... A mechanism on top of steem that would make it possible for us to "whitelist" real, actual humans so that their name would be shown green or something whenever we hover our mouse on top of their avatar or something like that.
As a major producer who gets +50 comments per post it has become hard for me to keep tabs on who may or may not be a human or a bot, just on a hunch, so you can probably understand my dilemma, and everyone else's who has been able to gather a sizable following, writing thousands of comments a week, or perhaps even per day. It will become increasingly hard to spot a quality comment in a sea of what could only be described as a cacophony of mediocre.
And it may sound unfair too, but I'm not saying this lightheartedly, most human communication is pretty much mediocre (no offense), but now we have an additional source of the same – the bots – we can't just sit idly and let some random sentence generator take our place.
Or can we?
"EXTERMINATE!!!"
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