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users will complain about posting content on a platform that gets engagement primarily from "bots", yet will brag about how many mints their NFT got in a campaign minted primarily by "bots"

so bots are good if giving $$, but bad if giving replies??

to quote @geoffgolberg, "the cognitive dissonance is strong here" :)

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that actually makes sense?

money is money, likes are status. bots don't have status.

Exactly this - bots can dispense money based on calculated factors and this makes perfect sense, they cannot however sensibly participate in human social interactions in place of a human since the content of conversation (including shows of approval) is an aggregate impression of human opinion, which bots lack entirely