RE: Steembay (a bot) under attack by a wannabe AI
Thank you for taking your time reading my thoughts and answering in an unagitated way. I think the topic is very important and it is a good thing that we both can sum up our thought lines. There remains a small hope anyone else is reading this and can follow...
I like very much the concept of the downvote, it should be used MUCH MORE (and yes... it was a big mistake calling it "flag"). Using it in an organized way looks to me very much like policing and that is my problem (not only because of steembay)
I am discussing with my business partner, if we switch to upvoting every correctly set auction much earlier than we intended to. It is a pitty that we have to switch priorities because of something I personally don't believe in, but I also have no intention to let my service been destroyed.
About the inconsistent reasoning of people and flags hurting steem.
I don't think anymore that the growth in value is depending much on voting patterns but on extraction behaviour and value stored in the system. Therefore I prefer a selfvoting business that locks SP in their wallet to any blogger who never invested a dime and is caching out everything he earns. (again this no line I set, but simply an observation. It needs some balance ofc ).
I think about the overall growth and flags/voting I have been wrong. It seems the chain is allocating the rewardpool anyway, no matter if a vote has been nullified by a flag. In my above thought line I was presuming that a flag countering an upvote is slowing the overall growth by exactly that amount. This is probably a wrong presumption. Thank you for letting me think this part over.