Seriously though, I think this bears on your argument.
We are being given free bread by the memobots, and the result is shitting up the blockchain. They are also telling us we can't have a social interactive site (can't park here) without it being continually shit on.
If you find someone putting free bread on your windshield, I reckon that should be considered tantamount to shitting on it, and treated as an act of biological warfare. If the solution is to park elsewhere, then the blockchain (our parking spot) is fatally flawed, and we need to find somewhere else to park.
Sending the bread back, or otherwise responding in any way, simply makes the problem of shitting up the blockchain they are causing worse - unless it causes them to quit. Maybe some appropriate flags would work.
To really stretch your analogy, I would point out that all voting and posting by bots are crimes against society, and the perps need to be prevented from shitting up our society. I'll make allowances for automated means of countering spam and plagiarism, but also feel that's dangerous and potentiates eventual problems as democracy inevitably becomes a weapon against minorities, and should be unnecessary in a properly written blockchain/society.
SOC (SMTs, Oracles, and Communities) should make this ideal society possible, and we may need to park there, rather than here on Steemit, after all, if we can't stop them from stuffing our wallets with free bread. Let's hope folks smarter than I whip up some oracles soon that can exclude them with extreme prejudice!
Seriously though, I think this bears on your argument.
We are being given free bread by the memobots, and the result is shitting up the blockchain. They are also telling us we can't have a social interactive site (can't park here) without it being continually shit on.
If you find someone putting free bread on your windshield, I reckon that should be considered tantamount to shitting on it, and treated as an act of biological warfare. If the solution is to park elsewhere, then the blockchain (our parking spot) is fatally flawed, and we need to find somewhere else to park.
Sending the bread back, or otherwise responding in any way, simply makes the problem of shitting up the blockchain they are causing worse - unless it causes them to quit. Maybe some appropriate flags would work.
To really stretch your analogy, I would point out that all voting and posting by bots are crimes against society, and the perps need to be prevented from shitting up our society. I'll make allowances for automated means of countering spam and plagiarism, but also feel that's dangerous and potentiates eventual problems as democracy inevitably becomes a weapon against minorities, and should be unnecessary in a properly written blockchain/society.
SOC (SMTs, Oracles, and Communities) should make this ideal society possible, and we may need to park there, rather than here on Steemit, after all, if we can't stop them from stuffing our wallets with free bread. Let's hope folks smarter than I whip up some oracles soon that can exclude them with extreme prejudice!
I'm attempting to curve my expectations while at the same time being optimistic enough to participate of the building of them.