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RE: Guardian of the steem universe : A different perspective on the role of whales within steem ecosystem [ part 2]

in #steem • 8 years ago

jesta's comment covered my idea on how a sybil attack would go.

An absolutely transparent sybil attack might be downvoted by the moderators, but i seriously doubt one with even the flimsiest pretext of being a legitimate post would be.

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     8 years ago (edited)

    he be able to assign a massive amount of the reward pool with noone to gainsay him.

    Moderators would downvote overpaid content, this user would be wasting his power if he was upvoting shitty content. He'd better off rewarding real content that's not going to be downvoted.

    Allocating a good portion of the reward pool to yourself is something whales could do today so why don't they? There is multiple reasons for that but the primary one is that they are going to be downvoted if they do. So it really is no different to how the system works now.