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Isn't this actually just spam encouragement? A community with a bot that posts 50 low-value posts every day will have a much higher PCM as a result, and that behavior is more obnoxious to users and moderators who have to see it and deal with it, vs. someone creating a bunch of accounts, which is largely invisible to everyone else.
I mean, isn't the whole point of this comment section to discuss the merits and flaws of the proposal you've made? If we're not discussing the downsides, too, what's even the point?
That said, an ideal system would be a measure of the quality of content, not the quantity of content so, as another user has suggested, some measure involving net upvotes might be more effective. Yes, obviously a user can create multiple accounts to upvote everything and fuck with that metric, but I kind of doubt many folks would go to the trouble.
Maybe some combination of PCM and the average number of votes divided by the number of active users could generate some sort of quality metric. At the very least it might be a measure of engagement.
Looking from the admin level, doesn't happen that often. Vote manipulation is already something we keep an eye out for, and usually it's done to highlight certain content (ex. pushing some political angle) rather than boosting one community over another.
I like some bots, but I only subscribe to a bot-only community if the volume of posts is reasonable.