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RE: Short post about flagging... short for me anyway.
Thanks for the blog. I just had this on my last blog within a few minutes. I thought I was seeing things at first until I checked out that they are "NoBodies" so total irrelevant. Nice to see someone sees Steemit as a threat..!! For me the more Flagging by "NoBodies" that goes on the more powerful Steemit MUST BE..!! Thanks again for sharing the blog. Stephen
If any of these bots or accounts makes the mistake of posting anything, be it a reply, comment, or post they give you something that can be down voted. This will drop the reputation so they have less damage to people since they are just flagging at will and don't care who they flag.
If they have no post, comment, or reply then you can't do this. This is what has protected @asshole so far, but I suspect there will soon be a way to rectify that.
Silly people that think breaking things will make people have sympathy for them. If @skeptic is endorsing this he just lost my support, but I won't pull that away without knowing. I do not believe he should be getting blanket flagged either. He was fighting back with words and images, and I supported that.
When you have something that is potentially a threat you have to accept that there will be a small few who will try and break it. When asshole started I didn't get involved but now there are 3 more it makes it more exciting. No one, but no one would go out of there way unless they see it as a threat. For me it is so obvious what is happening and as long as they are flaggots and not real users I will keep powering up..!! The more flaggots, the more I will power up..!! It's a no brainer. Stephen
@asshole was smart enough to not post anything, reply, comment, etc. Exploiting a flaw in the system. There is no way to flag them and reduce their reputation. So they potentially can hurt people with a reputation of 25 or lower. People that use their personal account, and/or reply comment on something give us something to down vote and we reduce their reputation so they can't really harm anyone and are just a nuisance at that point. Once they have no reputation you can use the MUTE button and just forget about them.
I hear what you say but what I am talking about is that Dan & Ned have just rolled up a snowball and tossed into hell..!! Social Media sites that have shareholders and are making money out of users posting their stuff are not just going to roll over and have their bellies tickled. I accept this to become the norm to put off Steemit users. Stephen
Yeah and I know Dan is aware of this and trying to find a solution. That's the thing these bozos don't get. You can see something is broken and yell FIX IT.
It doesn't happen magically though. Every fix has potential ways it can be gamed and taken advantage of.
That is the tricky bit at the moment. How to fix it without leaving the system open to be totally gamed.