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RE: Symbiont{s} | Anti-Abuse Initiative | Steem Sentinels
I'm very much against any consolidation of power into a "benevolent" super account. If you've learned nothing else from this situation, it should be that for the most part,people are all the same and when given power, they will execute it in accordance with their emotions. This is true of both sides in equal fashion.
Besides, free downvotes already addresses a lot of the problems with abuse. It does, however, create a different problem, downvote abuse. I believe you can fix the downvote abuse problem by implementing a different reputation system and possibly creating consequences based off of that system. I posted my ideas about such a system here.
people are all the same and when given power, they will execute it in accordance with their emotions.Correct.
But we believe that there is a deterministic fatality within DPOS. Emotions will always play a major role in the decision-making process, even if you build a mechanism that will allow people to vote for a specific blacklist (democratic consensus), other people would still find it unfair, but this does not matter of course, because the value of your opinion is only worth the value of your stake. A democratic system based on raw power that will not necessarily mean that all decisions made will be great decisions. It can be seen as something similar to Tyranny of the majority were having the majority does not mean that what you are doing is right.
Unless you completely scarp the reward pool from the equation (Go for PoW for the native token), emotions will always play a role on Steem.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!