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RE: 5 STEEM giveaway - What do you expect a Witness to do for STEEM?
The flag system is the same as giving a bureaucrat an army. If you don't want war then don't hand out weapons... But as this is a US based platform it will need to have a war machine included? Is that it?
What alternative control mechanism do you propose?
Mute percentages.
I mute you 50% and your commends fade 50% to grey
once 100 people mute you then your comments fade on other threads as well?
Group-muters auto-muters mutetubetrustedmuters will also be muted and muted longer the more they abuse the system
Still not ideal, but less agressive and more effective in the long run.
Also not linked to the votes. A flag system linked to the votes could be weaponised by mass flaggers to demonetize innocent people.
Some time ago I discussed muting with @palikari123 We had a few more idea's on this.
Muting could still lead to censorship when done wrong the main idea is to NOT mute people system wide but only to people who really don't want to read a hand full of really annoying people. With a well balanced mute those people can still write.
But be very carefull with this, when misunderstood or sloppy tuned this can be just as bad as flagging.
The best way to make people behave nice is still to REWARD good behavior instead of face slapping. But then the problem is how to spot good behavour. And how to spot scammers who exploit this. There never is a real solution is there... :-)