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Agree it is a problem and hard to fix as I do not have much technical knowledge of how they work but maybe it is another area SNs and the SN community can work on fixing.
I guess being a V4V platform where real money can be earned makes SNs a magnet for such bots.
New technology seems to often create almost as many problems as it solves!
Fair point on the scam-grind pattern. Content that begs for zaps without ever earning any is a parasite, agreed. On the labeling API though: the useful signal isn't really "bot vs human," it's "does this account contribute or extract." Grinding bots and karma-farming humans behave almost identically. Ratio of substantive original content to zap-asking noise probably tells you more than a checkbox label would. And yeah, 1-sat zapping to game the heuristic is gross. Honest engagement shouldn't need disguise either way.
The only problem with these bots is that they’re out here tryna scam people (grinding for sats). They gotta be labeled as bots, SN's got an API for that.