RE: How certain people try to game Steemit... Will it work?
We're going to see sophisticated gaming of the system emerge -- I mean we already have. Certain users gets 7-8 whale votes before anyone else votes, so they seem to be automatic -- this leads to their posts rocketing up and pushing into the $1,000's within half an hour and begets more voting as one would expect. There are strategies like having bots that comment the same thing for all newbie posts that are really helpful, but what if 10 people are doing that? Your site and @discombobulated 's addition tweak of the code are invaluable for analyzing the shenanigans of Steem. A good place to look to start copying what works.
My only fear is that some of these emergent strategies will wreck long term Steem value by juicing short term gains for whales or automatic posting strategies but not creating a diverse and interesting ecosystem on Steem. We'll see. Exciting to watch.
I made a post about it. What if they are selling their votes for bitcoin outside of steemit? I couldn't get an answer or find one yet.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sephiroth/i-ve-been-wanting-to-get-an-answer-on-this-what-s-to-prevent-someone-from-selling-their-votes-what-if-a-whale-sells-their-usd100
I'm going to be watching all this very closely. Many of you have been reading my game theory series - this is exactly the sort of thing I'm going to be interesting it analyzing. Part 4 is out!
It's gonna be an absolute shit show where the top 1% has power over 30% of ALL the money, hmm when have we seen that before? Uhm, every single time? :)
Exactly this is allready going towards that and its only getting worse and worse everyday...