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RE: "Our Corrupt Sense of Fairness" or Steemit's Incessant Rule Changes?
Steem is a "game" that has never been played before. Its developers could not anticipate in advance every possible way to game the system, so the rules must adapt to maintain an equilibrium and prevent the game from collapsing. Eventually, like chess and ancient games whose rules evolved over centuries, the rules of Steem will stabilize.
There is very little transparency to these rule changes here on Steemit. How many people were aware that we went from a 12hr payout to 24hr's recently? What other changes have been made and can anyone name them all without going to a 3rd party website?
In every game in existence (afaik), when there is a rule change everyone is made aware of the rule change by an insert placed inside with the game board and it's title reads, "Rules". And generally there will be a section that mentions what rules have changed since the last time the rules were published. On Steemit, we do not get this same transparency.
Currently changes are being made in the dark and 99.5% (best guess) of the platform's users are completely unaware of the changes, many simply do not care ... until it affects them adversely, then they complain. A better way to handle these constant rule changes would be to ...
Post the proposed changes for everyone to discuss openly on Steemit.com and make everyone aware of this post with a notification we all see upon login. This excludes changes to the system that protect us all from vulnerabilities. Those should be dealt with promptly, in most cases, after the code has been reviewed and deemed worthy.
Once a lengthy discussion has taken place and all sides have been heard, that wish to participate, then and only then should the change be implemented. This way everyone has had a chance to review the change, voice their opinion and will know up front what to expect after it's implemented. Even if Dan & Ned decide to do what they think is best, they've at least given everyone else an opportunity to voice their opinion and know what's going to happen prior to the change.
I think that was basically an accident. The release was rushed out because of the mining security issue, which is a good reason for a faster-than-normal release. The rule changes were supposed to come in Hardfork 14, approximately two weeks later. Somehow the 12->24 change ended up in the first release.
In the earlier days things seemed to work better. There were more detailed proposals ahead of time and the release notes were more complete and detailed. I think the team is overworked trying to do too many things at once, and it shows.
I agree with that completely. And thanks for the headsup on why we are now on 24hr again.
But it's all there in Github. I've been following every release for the last month.
But... not everyone is a geek nerd techie programmer like me. A rules change insert, as you mentioned, would be much better (and easier) for the average user for sure.
The fact is, the transparency here is quite amazing, but few have the technical abilities to take advantage of that transparency and fully understand and appreciate the consequences of the code changes prior to them being released. There is a bit of "fast and lose" going on (as @smooth mentioned in their reply as well), but, to me, they have been justified responses to hacks, market liquidity reward issues, and exploitations of the mining algorithm. I'm hopeful things will settle down in the future as the low-hanging fruit gets exploited and repaired.
Good points. Agreed.
Changing the game isn't the problem, it's not being transparent about it and making it clear to new users. For a protocol that's attracting mainstream users that can't scan github, there need to be an ELI5 changelog that covers new changes.
No Sean, I must disagree with you here, whats going on here is abuse,
they set a ruleset to achieve an objective and if that objective is not met, they change the rules
PAY ATTENTION, if the ruleset is not somewhat fixed, there are no rules
the only rules that remain are the objective,
and is thats the case, this will get out of hand. totally out of hand.
This is fascism, authoritarian rule by a few set on an objective,
the rules are irrelevant to them,
Do you get what Im saying?
This is good one!