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RE: Preparing for changes in Velocity
So after reading about the changes my big takeaway was “easier to make spam accounts”
So after reading about the changes my big takeaway was “easier to make spam accounts”
Easier to make in the first place? Probably. Although it depends on how steemit will allocate its "account creation tokens". Most likely, it will grant some to DApps at more or less the same rate they delegate SP, which means these DApps will have their own responsibility + incentive to only use them on new accounts that will add value to the blockchain by producing content people will want to upvote and thus give them benefactor rewards. Without access to these tokens, it will actually be harder / more expensive to create spam accounts since the STEEM is burned.
Easier to spam? Probably not. As my understanding of the new resource credits + dust threshold goes: It will be more expensive for a bad actor to obtain the bandwidth needed to flood the blockchain with thousands of comments per day. Also, low SP spam accounts will not add any value with their votes, you will have to purchase and stake more STEEM to be able to benefit from upvoting your own accounts. So there won't be benefits to the way in which some actors have acquired hundreds/thousands of spam accounts with a tiny amount of delegated SP that they use to self-vote.
Imo, there are few things we can do to completely remove spam, but we can at least make it more expensive in order to lower it and also making those actors have to pay back to the community they hurt with their annoying actions.
I'm actually not so sure about this takeaway, but maybe I'm missing something?
Currently, the account creation fee is powered up to the new account. If you create a another account for yourself now, all STEEM that you spend ends up in the new account.
In HF20, there is an option to create accounts with RCs without spending STEEM. But as far as I understand, these accounts then have 0 SP. There is some minimal bandwidth, but in order to "spam", they'd still need a delegation or power-up like before.
No you are probably correct and I’m just too much a cynic lol I am the one I assume that is missing something :)
haha, I could have guessed the cynicism from tarazkp's reply :)
Cheers!
I mean it. @tarazkp24-7 @tarazkp4ever @alltimetarazkp @thebestoftarazkp .... you get the idea :D
I am going to run resteem services for my own articles only.