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RE: Daily Discussion No. 5: Addressing the Paid Upvote Bot Controversy - Calling a Spade a Spade
I'm getting closer and closer to adopting a position that we should ban all non-human actors from the blockchain.
agreed, totally. (is that, technically, a reality, though?- (I'm no techy)
The only way would be to implement a random 'captcha' image test, I guess.
i had this chat with someone - forgive me if i get this tottaly wrong - but - the blockchain - not steemit - cannot differentiate - and the bots do not need to use steemit (or something lol)
hope that makes some kind of sense..
Yeah a captcha would have to be built into the blockchain somehow. I'm not sure how possible that would be, given the blockchain, which is transparent, would have to store the correct answer to the captcha. Unless it utilises a third party.
Yup! @revo is right here in his appreciation @lucylin.
Actually, I've already commented long and hard about this same issue on other post out there from @blocktrades where I explained a few things a bit. }:)
On @blocktrades recent post, a veritable storm of ferment and comment arose. @leotrap asked @timcliff if a post couldn't contain an 'authenticator'.
Basically, enabling public key encryption between the post and blockchain, in which the key was only accessible on the post, provided in a way bots could not access but people could, will end bots ability to vote.
@timcliff said that @netuoso claimed captchas won't work, and sux0rz.
I paraphrase. The conversation can be found here.
Ending bots is a financial threat to every substantial stakeholder's profits on Steemit. I do not expect them to agree to do it. @ned publicly endorsed @blocktrades proposal, which would make votebots vastly more profitable.
I sorta feel like I am watching a friend die slowly...
How so?
In as simple terms a possible! lol
(sorry, I really am a techy dunce - I put my hat on everyday, with a big 'D' on it, as I sit down to my computer..)
Rather than seeing it as friend die slowly, maybe see it as a withering plant, with the shoots of something bigger and better coming along...
(that's my best optimistic speech I can muster, without several coffees..)
All delegations, all votebots, all paid votes, etc., come from those stakes. All profits go to their wallets.
Without bots, there aren't many ways to profit from SP, yet. I believe that's because the ease with which bots enabled profit has precluded alternatives from being explored and developed.
Since no other profitable enterprises have been explored, stopping bots is a threat to profitable enterprise, and all those enterprises are staked by the largest stakeholders.