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RE: The last missing piece of the steem puzzle
Exactly what I came here to say, what do you mean by consensus? I would rather have flagging be based on steempower than a pure number of downvotes. At least with the steempower you are putting the power into the hands of people who invested in Steemit and have some skin in the game. In theory those people should have some motivation to act in the best interest of the platform because its their money on the line if things tank.
I would rather have those people deciding than say noganoo and his bot army being able to decide what posts should be hidden.
That's why @snowflake believes that reputation should be used. You can have 1000 accounts but the reputation is only 25. You need to work hard to get a higher reputation. Would it be better if bernie decides what posts should be hidden?!
Except he doesn't say how reputation would be used, just a vague "consensus"...
Reputation is gameable. I believe that one 100% upvote from a user like blocktrades can take a brand new user from reputation 25 to 55+.
If reputation can not fullfil its purpose then we have a problem.
I believe reputation on steem needs to be redefined entirely.
It was really designed with a specific purpose in mind - as a tool to combat spam. If it was going to be used for something like you are proposing, you are correct - it would need to be redesigned. A redesign of the reputation system is a pretty large task in of itself. Not necessarily a bad idea, but it would be a lot of work.
How does it combat spam?
By hiding content from users with a negative rep. It isn't perfect at what it does, but it does do a decent job at preventing/discouraging/hiding some of the low level abuse.