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RE: Do we need Steemit Posting Limits?
Since there are not transactions fees in Steemit, there needs to be a way to regulate how much of the network people use. If there were no limits people with bots would flood the network and no one would be able to use. SP is a good metric because it equates to how much value the has in the system. They more value they have in the system the less likely they are to abuse it.
Why? Is it that we are worried about bots or spam? But isn't that the whole purpose behind the curation rewards? How could someone abuse being able to post and it not be curated or filtered out?
I think putting up a barrier to entry might not be a good idea especially if it's system wide. I think if it were just foe Steemit then fine but you're talking about putting it into Steem itself system wide? I don't think that is a good idea.
Suppose someone wants to build a chat app on top of Steem? Do we really want to meter out the posting for that? Especially when we know Graphene can scale to handle it?
Another thought is even if little posters are posting a lot, this is exactly a good thing because it keeps them engaged. It's probably why transaction volumes are so high and the whole site is so sticky. Facebook for example doesn't limit how many posts you can make on your timeline or anyone can comment so why should Steemit limit how many posts? It would make people post until the limit and then give up, and go back to Facebook, Twitter or Reddit where these limits don't exist?
If little posters are posting a lot then improve the interface so we don't all have to see it. I think most of these problems are due to there being no groups, no "subreddit" type category, no real way to deal with the flood of posts in any meaningful way, no dashboard, etc. I think let little posters post as much as they desire but simply let clients determine how much to see.
The only reason I would change my mind on this would be if somehow an attack vector could open up with consequences to Steem itself. I highly doubt it would be an effective attack vector but in any case for certain kinds of communication outside of Steemit you cannot have a rate limit of that sort.