RE: HF21: What Makes Steem Valuable?
I was a supporter of trying the linear curve becuase and in the beginning it was exciting to see everyone getting some little bit of reward. Unfortunately it was too easy to game the system.
Yeah, and this was pointed out many times by people who were not in favor of linear rewards for precisely this reason (and there were other reasons too). The rationale was questioned long before the HF was officially proposed and implemented and Steemit, Inc. was asked directly why linear was suddenly preferred, in light of the previous rationale for non-linear. Those questions were pretty much entirely ignored.
But I'm curious...
How did it take two full years of economic and social destruction through a variety of abuses and exploits for this to come up again and finally be addressed? That is the truly mind-boggling aspect to all of this. What has Steem's "leadership" been doing, other than completely ignoring every call to scrap linearity, as well as other terrible protocols?
I would say that our consensus witnesses have been mostly derelict...again. We still can't even get much insight from most of them about the current proposed fork. Meanwhile, I've written a post for each of the two components of this fork, engaged on other people's posts about it, and I'm not even allowed in the witness/investor/cool people club chat where these discussions allegedly take place. Isn't that kind of ironic?
Steem is a blockchain supporting social interaction. In the three years I’ve been here I’ve had a number of negative social interactions with you personally. I like many of our ideas, just not how you express them or how you’ve treated people in the past you’ve disagreed with (from my perspective). If you acted in a more socially positive way, I think you’d get more support as a witness. I was surprised and grateful not to see any direct personal attacks in your comment here.
I’m not trying to be a dick pointing this out, I’m just giving my perspective. I hope it’s well received.
And yes, the Steemit leadership hasn’t really put a focus on improving the economics of STEEM or on improving Steemit.com. Hopefully the SPS will create a structure for the community to move things forward directly. Maybe we can start with people using the community GitHub repo instead of the Steemit, Inc one.
As for the linear curve, I do think it could have worked if more people downvoted and more people cared about fairness than greed. The previous curve was kind of ridiculous with thousand dollar posts on one hand and quality posts getting pennies. I think iteration, change, and experimentation is good. Let’s do it quicker next time.
You have been decentralised.
Yeah. Decentralized by the centralizers.
The funny thing here is - Luke seemingly doesn’t even realize that I was also (actually, primarily) referring to him and his witness cohorts when I refer to our “leadership.” He also conveniently ignored the direct mention of consensus witnesses, which he is and has been for a long time.
But it’s cool that he uses his typical passive-aggressiveness to give me “his perspective” about my typed internet tone. As usual, he missed my point about irony and used the opportunity to try to marginalize once again - as most of our “leadership” has done in the community for three years.
Isn’t it a lovely culture that they’ve cultivated here?
The more things change...
Centralisation by Accumulation isn't all that much better than having an unelected Supreme Soviet. Having both rolled into one is fatal.