The State of Steem
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How's that transparency working out for us?
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24hr Change -3.59%
How's that transparency working out for us?
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I was hoping Blakes mention on #Infowars would pumped it up.
I'm still waiting for this 30 day average payout thing to kick in. At the moment the rewards are way lower than before. Hopefully that turns around too.
best way to do that, in my NOT so humble opinion.
Is to get rid of steam power (replace it with reputation)
and not allow bots to vote (harvest)...somehow.
Telling the difference between a bot and a human is nearly impossible unless we implement some pretty serious Captcha like stuff on voting, but bots vote via code, CLI, etc so captcha is meaningless.
You could restrict one account per person an make them verify extensively somehow, but short of that there is no sure fire way to detect a bot. Attempts to do so will often fail and treat legit people as bots too.
then steemit will fail.
Anything that relies on detecting bots will fail. You click on things on a screen. A bot is simply code someone writes to act like a person. So you have to programmatically have a way to prove someone is not a bot by monitoring their activities some how. You have to be able to examine what they are doing and say "This is not a person". People could manually attempt to flag accounts as being bots, but some online game systems do this and people are falsely accused at being bots even in such systems. So in reality the only way I can ever see something like that being possible is if there was a way to limit ONE ACCOUNT per person and that'd require knowing a shit load about the person. It'd be akin to registering for a Social Security number, which you know that can be exploited too.
If things can be exploited outside of a computer then many of those things are harder to police in a computer. Some things are easier, some are not.
I think a review board for accounts that have the power to vote on bot vs real people or even troublemakers and boot them out of the community is a viable solution.
To digress, the requirement to be able to join the ever growing board would be tied to reputation score, and people that want to be elected would need to get votes from a set number of high rep accounts to vote them in on the board. From there they could employ any means necessary to verify new accounts and flag/suspend bot accounts. Since this would be considered work each validated account will earn the board member a certain amount of SBD or Steem, or even better just SP, and each account that turns out to be a bot will negatively affect their rep, and dipping below a certain rep will require they be investigated by the rest of the board for disingenuous or less than competent validation, meaning that dropping rep from flags won't affect their membership, only accounts that later turn out to be bots (not offenders/trouble makers).
Of course this would need to come in tandem with a new flagging system that negatively affects rep, while downvoting will not, and should be curbed by draining 10x the voting power while also being curbed in the vested power category.