i think that is false statement I have test non boted votes with manually Voting up,and Bots would get the comments not going to the top
First of all there is no such thing as a botted votes.They are just regular votes, manually or botted is still the same. Unless the votes are misssing a tag, or has an invalid old vote in the POST.
Second of all, if your comments didn't go to the top. Then I would just concentrate on that and try to figure it out else your just gonna be going in circles.
Third of all, your comments didn't go to the top cause of the accts and/or ips you were using.
If you still want to think your right. Then tell me exactly why do comments not go to the top, there is a reason why and there is a way to find out too if the comment will go to the top or not.
After you figure that out, then you already solved the very basics of comment rating, then there are other filters on top of the basics and some odd effects too. But your still at the bottom without knowing why your comment didn't go to the top because you think is the bot, so your still with the crowd right now waiting for that bot or not giving a fuck why comments go to the top enough to test and see, because you are in a hurry to make money that you are not willing to put the effort and time to do it right.
I mean you should have atleast sniffed your http packets to see the difference, thats the first thing that should have come to mind instead of saying that you tried it manually and it worked but with a bot it didn.t That doesn't explain much, because you obviously didn't even analyze it or know whats going on under the hood of the bot aka http requests, so I don't see how you can actually say that what i said above is false statement. Ofc i am not telling you step by step how to get your comment to the top, but atleast am trying to be super nice ,even though i am hurting by bringing more competition into my field, into gearing you in the right direction.
Geez this is what i get for helping a poor noob out.