RE: 5 STEEM giveaway - What do you expect a Witness to do for STEEM?
1.-Unify the Steem Power. Currently this is not a decentralized platform as they want us to see it when a group has the power to shatter an account or make it grow that seems to depend on their mood, that’s the way it works in the real world. When a whale for no reason attacks an account, to whom can we ask for help? A use-case example @bunnypuncher who protects this account from abuse? Who explains why it’s being attacked? Don’t they have the right to become a whale too? Why can’t my post accumulate $ 1000? The Steem Power of the whales, same as mine, must be equally important. Also I should have a voice to defend myself without fear that the super power of this whales will neutralize me.
2.-Remove bots like Cheeta for example. It is not always appropriate when this bot puts the flag. This can be understood because it is not a human with criteria. There are also accounts that call themselves "cleaners" and they just are a group of boys playing being gods and do not respond to the expected level. Same way, we the little fish, are unprotected. All bots must disappear.
3.-Remove the flags. The community is not yet mature enough to have this option within reach. I have been attacked by fake accounts for no apparent reason. Other times I just seem to be someone's specimen. If there is any reason to mark a ticket negative, I should be able to write to an experts group mediators, and they will be responsible for evaluating whether or not my complaint proceeds. I have seen the abuse of whales, who controls them?
I’m a little fish and it is this disparity that makes me want to leave the platform most of the time. It has probably been the feeling of all who left their accounts.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to express myself.
Thank you for your entry ,
if you can provide some examples where you felt you were treated unfairly , it would help make your case stronger.
What you need to consider for @bunnypuncher 's account case is , you can't just keep boosting to trending with low effort post , that is reciepe for getting flagged.
If you want to run contests and not boost to trending , in my understanding , that would never be flagged.
Would you be kind to explain that to him? He and all of us who participate in his contest want to know the reason for the flags. Than you, you so very kind. (I'm going to look for the post where I received negative)
Just copy paste it over to him...
The golden rule is-
If you boost your post to trending page , multiple times , it must not be a low effort post. I would deem the contest he was running as a low effort post.
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... :-)