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RE: How Being Too Nice Hurts Steemit
Since I'm fairly new to Steem, I have been wondering about these loopholes. I realize that groupthink is unavoidable, say if many people are in agreement, then they will just mass upvote each other. Would having an admin team help filter out spam comments or vote farmers incentivize people to engage in conversations and actually think about the topic of a post?
Another way to reward people is to have a meritocratic system where the amount of SBD earned from votes is pre-determined by the quality of a comment regardless of the SP power people have. The only question is whether Steem should use bots or real people as moderators.
I think the whole idea of Steemit is to be decentralized, i.e. no central authority. If there are admins Steemit won't be decentralized anymore. So that kind of goes against the whole idea :)
But then how would you suggest dealing with the bots and farmers? Should it be entrusted to everyone who is in the community so they have an equal opportunity to flag suspicious posts? Just my two cents since I still believe some standards of conduct are necessary to keep things civilized.