RE: The Spam Problem - Some Statistics
These "bad actors" are merely a consequence of the currently poor allocation.
Like terrorist attacks in Europe are merely a consequence of poor refugee status allocation? Well.. maybe. So Europe should make it less attractive to go there? Well.. maybe.
If you don't want any new members, that's fair. You can say that. It would also be fair for the incrowd to be able to buy more bandwih with the Steem Dollars that are orders of magnitude easier to accumulate for them. There are other solutions thinkable that are friendlier. But you have to be honest about what you want. Is Steemit full? Or does the community actually want new members?
Technically we (minnows) could fork the repository and start our own blockchain community with rules that actually make sense, rules that incentivize quality over quantity in stead of the other way around like it is here. Set a mimimum price for memos, unless the recipient is following you. Allow people to make a maximum of 2 free blogposts per week unless they pay a doubling amount. Maybe it would get more popular because it actually works. And then we close our bandwidth to refugees from Steemit.
Besides, a lot of the mass poor quality self-promoted and somehow royally rewarded posts are authored and bid-botted by vested members from the incrowd. The memo-spam is done by vested members who have made a bidbot business on the chain. New users don't even have a cent to send with memospam.
Yes, new members are the problem to everything that's wrong with Steemit.</sarcasm>
That last sentence gets you a up vote.
Maybe try reading what I’ve actually written.
And if you want to compare bandwidth allocation to terrorism and refugees, I doubt you’re going to get anyone to listen to your arguments.
You have problems with all of the bullshit that happens around here? Good. So do I. But limiting bandwidth allocation for non-invested users is pretty much unrelated to bid bots, circle-jerks, collusion, the initial distribution, the shitty interfaces, the shit content on trending, the shit “whales” and witnesses that prioritize easy cash outs over long-term growth and viability, the incompetence of STINC, and the complete shit culture we have here.
If your idea of fixing any of that is to make spamming and actual attacks on the network much easier for malicious and non-invested actors to accomplish, then I’m afraid we have little more to discuss.
You are not owed anything for showing up. This is a DPoS blockchain. The ‘S’ is for “stake.” Those with more skin in the game are the ones who have more influence and have de facto network “priority.” If you think you deserve more resources than the ones you’re given for free, then by all means, go get yourself more of that stake in the blockchain. That’s how it works. You noobs would do well to understand that.
I'm using advanced figurative language by taking an adynaton-like hyperbolic analogy which - unless the audience stops following the rhetoric when triggered by keywords - is actually highly comparable and illustrative of similar mixed interests that influence the status quo, which currently - as seen by your suggestion and the fierce defence thereof - is not in line with your personal interests.
Translation: In European countries like Germany, the citizens are wary of refugees because they include "bad actors" and dillute the culture they've become accustomed to. At the same time, the leaders are welcoming to refugees because they know they are needed to eventually sustain (pay) the rapidly aging/retiring (whale) community.
What do you mean for free? According to @TrufflePig I've done 39 SBD worth of combined contributions so far. With <2 SBD earned, it means that I've paid 37 SBD to the system and it's whales. If the rules would be such that I could still see some of this emerge in the future, I would have more than a hint of motivation to stay here, because I prefer low-traffic high-quality posts over the shitpost firehose stream that is incentivized here.
That said, Steemit is a nice experiment and differences aside, I'm sure we both like to see it improve. You seem to know your stuff and are highly motivated. If you think you have what it takes you might want to write down a proposal because @ned is hiring, and you sure have a bigger stake in this project than I.
And now I'll go on a coffee break for some mental bandwidth.