RE: Flagging War: What The Hell Do You Have In Your Mind? A Short Term Solution To Fix a Long Term Problem?
Couldn't agree more with that!
How is it possible that a blockchain supported by millions and dozens of developers, is not able to come up with a good frontend? Really, this is something I cannot live with.
How? With a digital layer it seems like a futile exercise to even consider the possibly.
Bots are gonna kill this platform. A way must be found. I see my posts getting 45 likes and having 5 views. This is RIDICOULOUS. We could have a review system for applications using the blockchain, like in many cases outside Steemit. The review could be based on the consensus of the community or the applications should pass a certain verification process, that could be even automated.
Every flags should be accompanied with a reason if it is not disagreement on reward.
I agree
So maybe a downvote button instead of a flag and a strong warning before downvoting anything below 0 could help.
Agree with this as well
Low value bots (spam bot) can be suppressed by bandwidth limiting and usually removing their financial incentive is enough.
I was considering doing something to break the trails, it's easy to detect account that blindly follow some authors, and the fact that it happen with users at high level is concerning, (Ex. @timsaid trailing @gavvet). I don't see it as being so much of a problem though as vote count doesn't affect the user experience. (unfair reward does though)
What would also be great is to have a way to reduce reputation of an account that isn't posting anything. Whatever that would do, it would be in a way disagreeing with someone's voting pattern.
Reducing the reputation due to inactivity sounds like a really interesting idea, never thought about that!
New accounts have too much bandwidth and account creation is still faulty when I find hundreds of new accounts a week being created for free by @steem by those like @dart & @zlo
Which is also the case for a lot of my photography posts - but it's hard to determine if real people like the thumbnail (which could be classed as a "legitimate" upvote, or if it's a bot upvote.
I think I see one solution. Would it be possible to add in a future hard fork that all upvotes and rewards from accounts that don't also generate a view be removed automatically?
I think upvotes are a function of the blockchain itself, whereas views are a function of the Steemit UI. People using other apps to view the blockchain will not cause an increase in the steemit view count.
That is actually a good idea. You have to at least open a post to write a comment, so why not for an upvote?!?!
Because it's trivial to make a post? Also, do you really want to limit consumers that can reward content creators to other content creators?
Trying to throttle the bots is becoming critical. If something does not happen the value of steem will go towards zero. If you do not open a post, are you really a consumer? I am not sure what the answer is here, honestly. I know I had some steem on poloniex quite a while back and that I learned about the platform much later. Looking at the currency evolve and seeing blocktrades offer "power" as an option is kind of hopeful.
I'd love to work on a better frontend for steem but my job takes up all my time :(