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RE: Proposal to limit UPVOTE-GAMBLING: limit upvote power in thumbnail mode
I think the proposal might hit technical obstacles in such an implementation. It could prove very problematic to penalize users of steemit.com compared to a modified steemit client running on one's PC that doesn't have this penalizing behavior.
What technical obstacles? A nearly trivial implementation is just to remove the up-vote links from the trending and feed pages . . . . If this were my website, I could do it in no time at all and these devs are far better than I am.
Yes, someone could put out a client that then allows this "evil" behavior -- but like all evil behavior, it is self-defeating to use such a client. I will admit that I used to be guilty of such behavior -- until I found that I had much better accuracy and got much better rewards when I didn't do it (admittedly, at the cost of a little more time -- but with the benefit of actually reading good content).
No I'm not talking about the button removal. I'm talking about the fact that the software for the site is already able to be downloaded and run locally. So if you run the software locally, you'd have no such restriction.
So one group suddenly doesn't have the capability, the other has. Admittedly the second group is lesser in numbers but the power-voters (whales and dolphins) even vote from ...cli or bots or have slider bars that ordinary voters don't have. So in effect this voting change would typically alter the behavior of small voters who don't matter much anyway.
Technical solution is to create a sort of 2 upvotes buttons. (It's a bit violent and not-refined but...good news, it kind of already exists !!).
The devs already implemented a solution for whales to upvote with limited power, it should be technically feasible to adapt this feature. ( @piedpiper 's latest post talks about this vote slider)
Most people won't use a modified Steemit client, even if there was one available.
By having it on the main Steemit site, it'll at least affect 90% of people.
...but not 90% of the vote power... Because this 90% is typically the demographics whose vote is pretty weak... Perhaps it has an accumulated weight of 10-20%?