RE: Announcing Steem 0.14.0 Release Candidate
That would be an added set of "nice to have" features and provide more flexibility. Does it solve whatever issue they are trying to address with the proposed change? I'm not sure it does, just like I'm not sure their main proposal solves very much without some cost. I thank you for some good ideas, which the community should consider. I also hope people see @liberosist 's short comment that is buried somewhere deep below this post, which suggests a couple of simple ways they might be able to thwart bots without causing such an unneeded overhaul as the one they propose.
Ultimately, the main issue is giving the community time to consider and debate these proposed changes and discuss them before having them magically take effect with the assent of witnesses who do not seem to have vocal opinions themselves.
Won't this result in the botmasters making more bots? 8x more in fact.
No, because they'd have to split their stake and that voting rewards are stake based with slight incentive towards having it all in one account.
I do believe that 40 upvotes/day is a high target to reach for most organic voters. Much easier to achieve with bots.
Just did and replied to both, thanks for pointing out their comments.
Totally agree. I do feel like announcements are mostly made here when they're close to final, which is unfortunate. It leaves little time for discussion. That said, I do trust the better judgement of the smart people who spend time discussing them directly on github as soon they're proposed. In technical/innovative fields like the one we're in, I'm not sure that relying on popular opinion is always the best decision.
What about thinking of it differently? I think boring was just marketed poorlywhy 5 votes are good but marketed poorly