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RE: A healthy community discussion: Abuse via tokenized proxy?
Yep. But they are trading the tokens for votes in Steem, not selling them afaik
Edit. So buying the token for less than the vote they are going to get I guess.
I see. Well selling votes was always going to be an issue, via tokens or not. Lol this will leave the voter with a shit loads of valueless tokens to burn hehehehe..
I can, and I do use my partiko point for steem votes. Would you consider this the same? I actually do, although I was rewarded the points, I didn't buy them for a vote.
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The vote value on the largest I think is 27STU and there are several more. They are hitting Trending.
I don't think the voter cares about the valueless tokens, as I figure they are the ones selling them to begin with.
Oh, yeah with the partiko points, I guess it is the same in some way, but the value is so, so much less and it is being spread to many, many people.
Why? because profits nominal to encourage financial manipulation of rewards are potential. The negative consequences to curation, and myriad others, devolve from this vector as long as it remains extant. Tweaks, as we have seen repeatedly, are just playing whack a mole. At this point it's just an excuse to not solve the problem.
The Huey Long algorithm solves the problem, and ends the harm it causes. Vote selling doesn't have to be an issue. It's soluble.