RE: Downvote Pool Deep Dive
Police don't allow mobs to go around lynching people which is the type of behavior this change is encouraging. It's not about community self regulation either like it's being sold. This only empowers the largest wallets, of which there are few, with the largest ones being those who are proposing these changes. It's regulation by the 1% just like the mainstream media where billionaires use their power to produce propaganda rags for their cause and stifle dissenting voices. All of the changes I can see Steemit making are ones that favor their position on the blockchain, including normalizing a culture of downvoting behavior, and providing free downvoting mana so the largest wallets, most of whom are anonymous and could easily be multi-accouting, can more easily steer the reward pool into their own hands.
No this "type of behavior" is not encouraging anyone to act like a troll. Complete nonsense. Those that act like troll will do so regardless of the change and the change will not change people into trolls.
How does this ONLY empower the few? You seem to think that with free downvotes the large stakeholders will all of a sudden start flagging like a Troll, and that's fine, you can think what you want. I know different, I know that the large stakeholders do care about the health of the economy, and the distribution of steem I know so from the innumerable efforts going on at the moment and from the unprecedented and still without a doubt most successful things that has happened here, the Whale experiment.
Also, police used to pose with the lynch mob. Fact check your shit that thinks the police keep people from lynching people, they absolutely are completely powerless against a violent mob. I don't know what world you got dropped off from with such unadulterated nonsense.
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What makes you think "the Whale experiment" was a success?
Go back in the blockchain and see it for yourself what absolutely everyone said.
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You mean this stuff?
https://steemit.com/steem/@timcliff/the-whale-voting-experiment-explained-including-downvotes-from-abit
Looks like a total clusterfuck with zero data on what happened and therefore no way to measure success. Most of the comments are negative and it looks like several people left the platform over it.
https://steemit.com/steemitstrike/@kafkanarchy84/steemit-strike-apology-to-followers-and-announcement-of-indefinite-break-from-blogging
https://steemit.com/steemit/@karenmckersie/hello-abit-smooth-steemit-stike-notice-is-on-your-experiment-did-not-work
However I did not ask what other people thought of it, I asked why you thought it was a success. Care to answer that question or not?
Yes most people were up in arms about it, yet the experiment was meant to last a couple of weeks and it extended for a couple of months if not more and numerous people who were against it changed their tune mere days later. Your confirmation bias is showing btw:
https://steemit.com/whale-experiment/@benjojo/the-whale-experiment-orca-support
There are more I'm sure but I literally picked the first one (after I typed the quip about confirmation bias to you) out of the results:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Whale+experiment+steemit&ia=web
I told you to look back, I didn't say look only for what tickles your bias. In that thread I linked I'm right there in the comments commending the efforts of both abit and smooth and spelling out why it is a success, but it was a success because it empowered people and because it demonstrated that the large stakeholders aren't idiots and understand why people want to power up, and it's not when they see reward pool rape and such faggotries. I wasn't the only one, I'm positive that every single one were adamantly against it completely changed their tune days later, and I knew that because I was there and read their comments and posts.
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I'm not biased for or against the so-called experiment. You asked me to search for it and the first thing that popped up on Steem results was chaos and people quitting over it. That is why I asked for your opinion in the first place, because you claimed it was a success, and I wondered why. Clearly your claims that everyone approved of it were demonstrably false, and I still haven't seen anything in the way of data on how or why it was a success, only that a certain subset of people approved of and are cheerleaders for it. Expecting large accounts to act in concert for the good of the community rather than self interest is naive in my opinion, and I don't think anyone is prepared for the chaos that will be unleashed with free downvotes, but I hope that I'm wrong and you are right.
I searched for it out of skepticism with the search function on steemit, 'whale experiment' and guess what, one post "against it" , and everything else was what I'd call in favor of it. Anyway, if you cannot see why or how it was a unprecedented success I suggest you follow up with an optometrist. You think it's naive, even though it's exactly what took place, numerous whales came together and decided to do exactly that, to empower smaller accounts.
Why do you think that this place is open source btw, or that it's admin/moderator free?
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If it was such a success, why do you think the "experiment" was discontinued?
The STEEM blockchain is for all intents and purposes controlled by Steemit Inc. They implement whatever changes they want, moderate/censor their front-end, and control almost all the coding that is merged. Only in the last month did they start merging community code requests, but really nobody knows how many of the anonymous developer, marketing, and witness accounts they actually control on here.
https://steemit.com/discussion/@whatsup/remembering-the-whale-experiment-thinking-about-distribution
Second result from the search list, how deep did you have to go to find those outliners, or you searched specifically for "whale experiment fail" lol? That post explains why it was a success. In the comments more people doing the same.
https://steemit.com/steem/@abit/whales-no-voting-experiment-going-on
Yeah it was a "cluster fuck" and it had no 'control' but it was an experiment not in the strict scientific method way but as "Let's see what would it be with a different reward distribution" and the site was Lit. Like never before or ever since, we should be lucky to have that kind of engagement and reward distribution again. Go. And. Read. It's surely extremely hard to not run into post after post talking about how good the experiment was, though you seem to have burdened yourself in digging up the initial, reactive posts as if that means jack shit besides blasting the bias you have of "que wisdom of the crowd".
Top comment from that @abit thread :
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Yuge success, unequivocally the most successful thing that has happened to steem. Guess what the price did: Slyfuckinrocketed. Success, suck on that suka.
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If you think the price of STEEM had anything to do with this then you clearly don't understand how the crypto markets work.
Really, the price had 'nothing' to do with it. Spoken with the certainty of an idiot.
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My lazy ass needs links to that trove of info about the “Whale Experiment”, care to point me in the right direction?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Whale+experiment+steemit&ia=web
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