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RE: Two proposed HF policy change for countering reward based abuses.

in #steem7 years ago

Absolutely nothing, which is why I over and over again come out 100% against this idea. It's silly when you can create multiple accounts, delegate, or vote trade. It might stop the laziest or most technically dis-inclined abusers, which just shifts the "booty" to the more technically savvy, determined abusers. It seems worse than doing nothing. The big abusers don't self-vote, they vote trade in cartels like BookingTeam.com:

https://steemit.com/curation/@lexiconical/exposing-advertiser-circle-jerks-in-trending-reward-pool-rape-and-bookingteam-com

The only solution I see is removing flagging from using the same power as upvoting. There is too much financial disincentive not to flag things, and it's already bad enough there is a lot of social and retaliation disincentive as well.

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Right you are.

They even talk about this in the whitepaper. My post inspired by this thread might be of interest to you.

https://steemit.com/steem/@kyle.anderson/subjective-proof-of-work-some-rational-comments-on-the-self-voting-trend

Thanks, I'll check it out.