It'l normalize over time, wot and other similar metrics should be robust to small changes like if someone follows a bot by accident or whatever.

Of bots are useful, they will have good trust (being followed but not following others). Dave is a useful bot, there are a few time chain bots that are useful.

if a bot is bad it will get buried from mutes.

in the middle has a similar score to newcomers, which should eventually classify as show or don't show in feed after a number of actions happen.

Now, malicious actors? Purposely inserting them in communities to sow division - yeah WOT can't protect against that. Only the strength of the community can hope to guard against that.

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I hope our community learns to see these patterns more clearly in order to foster a more legitimate ecosystem.

Agree, though we do have decent starting conditions.

Top wot users are generally technically competent, and their effects on the scores of who they follow could be stronger

agreed, a practice I wish more people would do is scraping your following from time to time, take a second look at your following list, unfollow accounts that are inactive, accounts that switch names and personalities overnight etc