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RE: Looking forward to communities, back at socks
This is it. I was getting beat by an individual sharing stock images of socks, and for a good while too! At least, the 211 is no longer in progress. What happens when we finally give up all this nonsense about what's what around here? Will we finally 'social media'? I'm not skeptic, or even pessimistic about that future, but I will say, some of this is like a punch to the gut. Here's a beautiful, fertile land, prime for some growth, and we have people excavating dirt and selling it in dirt shops. Well, two years haven't shaken me yet, and I'm still planting and watering my seeds, Taraz. Your takes are always fresh, even if the people reading them are spoiled.
Lol yeah, the rest of his content is not much better with screen grabs of coinmarketcap :D
There will always be abuse wherever there is something of value to be gained as there are plenty of people who believe that the outcome is life, not the journey. I wouldn't want to spend a life having to justify my behavior to myself to avoid moral conflict.
Reward pool abuse on Steem is textbook case of the tragedy of the commons.
Because there is a common pool Steem will always attract con men until effective policing is established. EIP was a good first step.
Has it crossed anybody's mind that @ocdb and @curangel are centralized solutions, albeit strictly based on voluntarism? Only in combination with the EIP and over a combined five million SP delegated were they able to effect tangible changes to the widespread abuse that went on here.
Both projects are fantastic as you could say they are a primitive form of the community asserting structure and discipline. With their massive downvoting capabilities, they are the town sheriff putting a stop to the ongoing robberies. @ocdb is also the curation project with the furthest reach. Without it, a great many quality content producers would've been left empty-handed. Ditto for @curangel.
I think mass adoption will only happen on Steem when the Wild West has been civilized through force first. I must say to have been a part of an experiment like this has been exhilarating. A test subject an an observer at the same time.