RE: What's in it for me?
I sort of see it as a corporation, or mafia, or like in ancient Rome, where people could buy seats in the Senate.
yea me to.
The trouble is, a good number of those who rise to the top of the money heap, are somewhere on the psychopathy spectrum and see no value in mutual respect, let alone support. Its the reason these great Empires fall.
What do you think would be a "better" system or a key "improvement"?
I honestly believe that a democratic voting system for the selection of witnesses would sort things out. That would require a big shift in thinking if we were to have one person one vote, it would be the end of our perceived anonymity. I don't see that happening any time soon if ever.
I don't think its just my wishful thinking, there seems to be a slight change of attitude. A few more posts by some respected well known accounts will be helpful.
What you did for that guy was brilliant btw, congratulations.
I am going to do a post asking for feedback on the burn post alternative.
How do you solve the non-trivial problem of sock-puppet accounts?
No clue. Not sure that all alt account are necessarily problematic ?
The person you helped was @starworld Unfortunately he is poking the bear again !
Not all accounts with negative reps have the same visibility or access to services.
I think the main "problem" with alt-accounts is the 15 steem-power-delegation and 25 rep that is provided "for free".
If I can generate 1000 accounts for free, then I can essentially control 15,000 steem-power without spending a nickel.
I can serially upvote each of these accounts with all the other accounts in order to boost their rep.
I'm not sure I did much for starworld except make things worse for them.
Although I did learn that "libel" seems to = ad hominem attack.
I have no clue how people can have access to so many phone numbers to generate so many Steemit funded accounts.
You gave starworld a space free from flags, which must be huge in his situation. He got flagged again with his second post and I am quite sure even he could have predicted the outcome.
lol yes it does seem to have a rather special definition here on Steemit
A lot of these steemians are highly technical and have access to some pretty serious hardware.
Just off the top of my head, I can imagine creating 10,000 gm.ail accounts and 10,000 go.oglevoice phone numbers to match. With the right software (or scripting skillz) this seems like it would be pretty easy.
And even if you couldn't script it, you could hire a click-farm (sweat-shop) in some third-world country to do it for you for a few hundred dollars.
Wow i did not imagine it would be that easy. I was thinking one would need to be a bit more connected to the powers that be than that. Shows how much I don't know.
Opps my ignorance is showing again.
I liked the clip but not quite sure about the relevance, never mind.
I only learned about the click-farm thing a few months ago while I was burning through Mike Judge's amazing HBO series "Silicon Valley".
Click to watch 3 minutes,
Haha I loved this clip so much so watched another 4 back to back.
And that dust sweeper sounds interesting If it works I will use it myself
That's the clip I think of whenever somebody talks about revealing their identity online.
The primary use-case for steem (crypto) is anonymity. I should be able to send and or receive value-tokens to and or from anyone anywhere at any time without having to beg a "gatekeeper" for permission.
The moment you start trying to tie accounts to some sort of immutable identity, you only enslave the poor. The big-fish can create as many "real-world-identities" as they wish.
The real joke here is that most people think the BANKS are "protecting" them.
Do your IRL friends have your credit card numbers and a copy of your government issued id card?
No? Why not? Don't you "trust" them? Why would you give that information to a CORPORATION?
Do you really think they need that information to "protect" you?
It's a sad state of affairs when individuals trust CORPORATIONS more than their own friends and family members.
Now you have said it so succinctly my mind immediately jumps to scenarios where anonymity would be of vital importance. Especially during turbulent times such as the world is experiencing now.
The thing that has my attention right now is they are not new thoughts to me. I wonder how that happens.
Which guy? Sorry, you seem to have me at a disadvantage.