RE: Helsing: Governance Ideas (Good/Bad whales needed)
I am new and I think people need to remember that when a society starts creating systems that harm others to force them to do what is supposed to be in their best interest well sadly the examples in history just are not enough.
The truth is that a system of anarchy has to have its keystone to stand on. In common law it is the understanding of the none aggression principal. "Harm No One". Common Law uses Grand Jury's to indite and petite jury's to convict. It is all based on natural law. The community reserves the right to defend itself from bad actors through the Grand Jury. In America it is called American Jurisprudence.
How does steemit define a bad actor?
Who represents the community? Would that be witnesses?
Who acts as the Sharif or marshal on steemit and arrest accounts for bad acting?
Who acts as a judge and keeps resolution of the conflict on track?
Why not use oaths asseveration or affidavits as a requirement to flag a persons post?
Is there anyone on steemit that doesn't recognize that flags hurt the author and the steemit pool?
Not having these process to resolve issues prevents the society from becoming cohesive and causes it to resemble a pig pen (democracy).
I would like to help? I have ideas based in natural law I think will help. What I don't know is who to share them with?
Steem was supposed to regulate itself through self governance of upvotes and downvotes. And the community itself was supposed to defend it's interest. Just extremely uneven toked distribution makes this system pointless. As even a 1000 members with 100 steempower is not a match for bigger and misbehaving whales. Also flagging posts does not provide any incentive from economical point of view hence it is being used only by some community initiatives lie @cheetah and @steemcleaners but then again their purpose is different.
The real problem is that you didn't take three facts into account. The first one is that steemit is actually a society. To self rule a society must have fair, moral and just rules that everyone comprehends so they can also understand.
The second one is the fact that human beings sadly are not ruled by logic or reason and often have no logic or reason for the decisions they make. Ask someone for the logical reason to like chocolate over vanilla. Personal preference has no logic or reason.
The third fact is the fact that the agencies of our world are not in favor of decentralization and so they send their agents into steemit to reek havoc from the inside. This is why all societies have to have those rules I mentioned.
The reason why I am writing to you is because I don't believe there will be a second chance at decentralization. I also believe that my lack of programing ability requires those who have that expertise learn what I know about building societies and act accordingly or steemit is done.
Don't think that my username is an accident. The key is as I have said. Fair, moral and just rules that steemians ratify or the death of steemit. Remember please that I am no prophet and could be wrong, but I think that what you have witnessed in the recent past supports my claim.