RE: Payouts with zero votes? What's going on here?
Thanks for the improved exposition on a matter that was previously opaque to me. What potential may exist for this power to be in the hands of the accounts of the affected blogs? My primary concern is that this is essentially a centralized censorship, and that rubs me incredibly raw. While I do see that it is necessary to effect some kind of preventative mechanism for this problem, I don't like that it is imposed by Stinc.
I would much prefer you, I, and every other account holder be availed this power, as it indicates that slippery slopes to censorship that pose literal existential threats to subjects of tyrannies exist on the Steem blockchain. I came here to ensure that potentially lifesaving information would not be kept from me. It would be a shame if pictures of poop made us all less free.
Please forgive my ignorance of coding realities. My only excuse is that I the time I could have spent learning to code instead was used detecting my thumbs with hammers.
No data is being removed, you can still access the spam from other front ends or even your own if you put one up.
The process is being limited to extreme cases and is not used without heavy consideration.
That would be ideal, but there is no implementation in place to make this happen. The problem is fulltimegeek is spamming more comments a day than the entire blockchain combined. A stopgap solution had to be put in place to prevent the entire site being consumed by spam.
Since this has become a problem, it's time to implement such a long term solution. The present stop gap measure has the potential to become a permanent power to censor, and that transformation of temporary measures to permanent tyranny would not be the first time such a thing had happened. The US income tax is a good example. Hell, every tax is. Instituted to deal with some issue as a stop gap, they become permanent.
I don't think this is an issue that should just be glossed over. This is a fundamental attribute of Steem, and the primary metric that imbues Steem with value to me. I can post blogs or rants anywhere and be censored. I came here so that I wouldn't be censored, and this is censorship.
Steem flirts with an existential danger to it's existence by taking such a stop gap measure without immediately and effectively preventing that from becoming a permanent tyrannical imposition. If this power remains centrally imposed, Steem will eventually lose all value to me. It will no longer have any claim to being censorship resistant, and will simply follow the lead of Fakebook, Twatter, and Goolag in being the prime censor of it's users.
This needs fixing every bit as urgently as pics of poop. Even moreso IMHO.