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RE: I Got Flagged Three Times Yesterday. Did You?
I also got randomly flagged this week @glenalbrethsen.
This is another example to me of one of the down falls of decentralisation.
Steemit lets a load of crap accounts get registered and then appears to do nothing about it or maybe it just takes time for the message to get through to them to remove their delegation. Let hope it's the latter.
At least the automatic following by 12 accounts every time I post seems to have stopped. 😁
Okay, well, I think it's just a matter of time, and not a very long one, before most of us here will have been downvoted by these accounts. I've also been auto-followed by multiple accounts at a time, which has since stopped.
I'm sure the decentralized nature of the blockchain and its authority has a great deal to do with it, but at the same time, there are measures that can be taken, including some form of know your customer, along with mandatory linking of all accounts to one main account, while limiting the number of accounts that can be opened. I see those as all reasonable steps.
I keep hearing about, oh, doing this or that will open the platform up to a Sybil attack, or some scenario where multiple accounts with malicious intent can be open. Okay, so what are we calling this? Whatever measures that are supposed to be stopping this kind of thing are not stopping it. Even with fewer accounts being approved a day than were coming in when we started, and even with the anti-Sybil attack safeguards supposedly in place.
I'd love to know how any people who have lived under any form of decentralization managed their criminal or lazy elements. I'm sure they didn't just let them run amok among them. I'm sure they must have dealt with them.
Even if it's some kind of tribunal only convened after certain provable criteria is met, so that it wasn't only up to Steemit Inc to deal with, I'm sure we could come up with something to take care of the spammers, the scammers, the plagiarists, the phishers and now the inane flaggers, without putting into jeopardy every other account on the blockchain because we somehow opened up Pandora's Box.
I totally agree with this but have no idea how. Wouldn't we need access to the code @glenalbrethsen?
Are there examples of this then. I didn't think anyone had ever lived under decentralisation. At least not in "modern" times. If there has been this I wonder when and where the last time was.
I'd have to go looking again (and that could take a while) but a while back on someone's post talking about how anarchy or decentralization didn't work, someone in the comments referenced one area somewhere in Asia (don't recall where or when) who have been working under a form of anarchy for quite a long time. Centuries maybe. It was a pretty isolated group of people, I think, and not nearly as diverse in thought, race, or need, so outside of the groups themselves (I think there were different tribes or clans or something), it would be difficult to say if it would work on larger scales.
However, the comment didn't really specify how they went about punishing those who might be deemed criminal. The post was more about general governance than it was about identifying and then dealing with bad actors.
Ha. ha, ha @glenalbrethsen. That first paragraph is exactly the sort of thing I might write. Most unusual for you not to have your finger on the pulse. 😂
Hope all is well in your world and you're not "working" too hard. 😍
Well, when I say a while back, it could have been up to three or four months ago, and I've crammed a lot more into my brain since then. :) As it is, I think I managed to give you the gist of things. The relevant part was how to take care of bad actors in a decentralized system, and that wasn't a part of the comment or the wikipedia entry that I went to look up. Hard to believe there weren't ever any bad people, unless painful death by fireants or something was the punishment.
At any rate, any finger I might have on the pulse would need to be more current and up to date, rather than three or four months ago, right? :)
So far so good this morning. Cranking out comments, and getting ready to do some posting in a bit. Whether I'm working hard, or hardly working, is left up for interpretation, I guess. :)
Thanks for the clarification @glenalbrethsen.
Sounds like working hard to me but in a good way, since you like writing so much! 😁