RE: Symbiont{s} | Anti-Abuse Initiative | Steem Sentinels
As mentioned in the application post, all resources generated by our witness when reaching the consensus stage will be redirected to development and on-chain related projects. Why? Because even If someone has hundreds of gold bars in his bags, if he is on a sinking ship, in the middle of the sea, with no way out. He better starts thinking about how to fix the ship instead of thinking about his gold. We believe that there are a lot of things that need to be done here on Steem, otherwise, owning Steem will be as worthless as those gold bars in the future.
We may also add that we have only reached the consensus stage recently (a few days ago), thus, we do not have enough liquidity to finance anything right now. But considering the current situation, a lot of power is needed really quickly, but not a lot of people could provide such power. We can, of course, rely on the generosity of Steem Inc momentarily, but we believe that no one should be forced to do this. We can not force a company or a stakeholder to provide a large amount of SP without anything in exchange. A hybrid method could be beneficial by delegating to a curation project that will also take the responsibility to fight abuse, but we believe that the overall efficiency will not be optimal if this was the case.
That is why we believe that a Steem foundation that is powered by a clear social contract is necessary. To have an account to support a set of missions on the chain without owning power contained within that account. We believe that in the next HF, more changes are needed to make this possible, changes that will give users and POs a far more control over the operations of their accounts. There is currently a limitation that can be played such as:
decline_voting_rights_operation
But such a limitation can not serve our current gaol, we are thinking more about widening the set of operations that can be declined to (maybe more):
decline_delegate_vesting_shares
decline_witness_proxy_operation
decline_witness_vote_operation
decline_proposal_votes_operation
decline_withdraw_vesting_operation
The account will fall under a real "social contract" with the Steem community. Thus, the community can choose to stop the project and send everything to Null or DAO.
This is of course just theorizing at this point because there are a lot of things to think about to make the concept work. We are working really hard to make a Steem Foundation possible. We will probably formulate a more in-depth analysis of this idea in a future post.
Thank you for passing by, @pennsif,
I assume you realise the Steem Foundation already exists?
Indeed.
It is unfortunate that the foundation did not play any major role before due to the lack of support and several political problems and the fierce rivalries between several projects and members of the community. But it is obvious at this point that the Foundation to which you are referring is now obsolete, especially because of the involvement of several of its members | representatives in the last few events that shooked the Steem blockchain.
In addition, It is evident now when you see that former PO are abusing the chain on a daily basis that the criteria of what should be considered as
trustworthyneed to change. People now have trust issues and we can not really blame them.There is clearly a lack of identity, integrity, and self-discipline. Having definite convictions and a clear vision is what makes things move and improve. If something is wrong, then it is wrong whether you are doing it on Hive or Steem. We just hope that the community there will see the abuse that is happening here as a revelation of the true nature of those people.
Thank you,
Some real valid points there.
I can't deny that I really enjoy your narrative.
You have full knowledge of the true situation of the chain, that reality that we as average users, had to witness and suffer for so long.
Steemit's current situation regarding abuse has worsened, unfortunately due to the actions taken by those who once held the standards of justice.
Seriously I need to consider voting on you as a witness as well. Steem needs more people like you @symbionts
Yours,
Piotr
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!