RE: Steemit Reward System 2.0 - It is Time to Evolve
responded this to your comment on my post, but also added here too for reference...
I went through your post and the ideas you suggested to help mitigate some of the "issues" faced by STEEMIT. The problem is that those tactics can all be relatively easily circumvented through the use of fake accounts. As for BOTs, what you also have to understand is that from the perspective of the STEEM blockchain, even STEEMIT.com is a BOT. I dug up this old comment of mine when the topic was brought up on another post last year. Hopefully it helps better clarify the situation:
What many people don't even realize is that the steemit.com front-end is basically a bot (ie. it talks to the STEEM blockchain via API, just as any other BOT would), so there's really no way to "stop bots", without impeding STEEMIT as well. In fact, many of the slightly annoying features you do come across (ie. waiting for 30 minutes after a post goes live to get full curation reward, wait 3 seconds between votes, wait 20 seconds between comments), are all meant to "control bots". Of course, as you can see, all these "features" affect STEEMIT.com as well.
Thank you kindly for heeding my invitation to give this a quick look.
In truth my timing could have been better, as my next 72 hours shall be highly learning-work-and-snacks intensive. I did find your pointer that Steemit is practically a bot perusing of the Steem blockchain to be thought-provoking - and I thank you for it.
This being said, I will need to reconsider the above with this in mind (as I am not yet decided on whether I'm sold that the above-mentioned tactics can indeed be relatively easily circumvented through the use of fake accounts - I'll need to think about that some more, come Monday).
Thank you again - not least for your time.
As an aside - I never got back to this point. So much going on.
I remain unconvinced - but for as long as I fail to revisit and delve in depth I am hardly in a position to lay any challenge to the claims made by the original commentator.