RE: Vote buying EOS eosDAC and How It All Relates – Discussion with @lukestokes
I'm really sorry to have missed this post a month ago. :( I normally get notifications from Gina bot and respond to them.
Extending vote buying via "Information Age / Information Science" to be what I would essentially call a gift economy is quite a stretch, IMO. Vote buying is bribing based on how I understand things. That's much different than a gift economy where everyone does things voluntarily with no expectation of value returns.
I have different perspectives on expectations as I've outlined in previous posts:
I don't do things with an expectation of others. That would be like positive rights, meaning others are obligated to respond based on my actions. I prefer negative rights meaning others will never be in violation if they do nothing at all.
It's unfortunate that I did not see this post earlier, or I would have replied sooner. As it is, you had an expectation of me that I could not meet because I was unaware of this post. It's a small example of why I think these expectations are not a good thing because they can create unnecessary frustration. If I said, "Hey fingersik, thanks for linking me to your post, I'll reply today" and then never reply, that would be my bad. I would be going back on something I committed to doing.
The connection to vote buying here is confusing to me. I think you're describing a gift economy instead and you also throw in some expectations that I'm not personally comfortable with.
Thanks for adding to the discussion though! I really do appreciate it, and I wish I had encountered this post earlier.