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RE: *** WARNING! *** New Steemit Phishing Scam -- Be Very Careful with Certain Comments
Thanks for the warning. It looks like the same trick that someone used a while ago. It's a HTML formatted link leading elsewhere.
Steemit should introduce a hierarchy for design options. There is no problem when trusted users embed HTML code in their posts, but it should be both restricted for newbies and there should be the possibility to take away the right again when abused.
It does seem that whenever the value of Steem is rising, more bottom dwellers come out with their shenanigans.
What you bring up here is something I have suggested before... we need a different "score" here, aside from just reputation and SP; one that is trust-based and directly related to your level of seniority and actual interaction/contribution here. I know reputation sort of does that... but it doesn't really reflect actual trust, standing and contribution in the community, just how much you've been upvoted.
I thought about this before, too. That problems occur is normal, it is the question whether the system has proper mechanisms in place to cope with them systematically.
A solution could involve that users can "buy free" certain functions with their SP/SBD like I described it with HTML or maybe a recursive reputation chain might be something, by which I mean, who knows who and trusts that person (or anonymously user) based on experiences in the past here or elsewhere. This would even work independently of Steemit or the Blockchain. But of course, that too is not failsafe as the case of @zeratul shows.
At the end it is the developers and also the witnesses who have to act (if you want to take some action on this, I will follow you). But I think they will only do that when the project itself is at stake and its standing towards potential investors. You can see that with the case of @haejin vs berni, where they leave things to the steemit "market".
The same will probably also be with low-level scamming attempts. They will leave it to the community to contain it.
I recently wrote a post about another looming problem. Your wallet tells me, you are not affected, but maybe in the future you will, it's about robbers paying newly rich Steemians a visit at home.
I will follow you now.