Shill/bot upvoting?

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[–]proc0 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Bots upvoting is a serious feature flaw in aggregation sites. Only humans should be allowed to judge, after some spam filtering of course, but why tackle that as if it was legit content to begin with... upvotes should start after all the algorithms have checked the content, and then the upvote number should literally reflect number of humans that ciicked, at least IMHO.

[–]SaidOverRed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed, perhaps occasional captcha's? Like a normal person would not "miss" one after an upvote, but a botnet would.

Then atleast you know to ban the account and put more restrictions on that IP (or any IP's that user has logged in with). Would the ban undo their upvotes? I know it can be the usual free speech issue, but if they are a bot ... yeah I think it should.