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RE: Voting Abuse and Ineffective Curation: A proposal for blockchain-level change
I'm understanding it like key encryption. The post delivers a public key to the blockchain, and only having that key allows a vote for the post.
The key is accessible only through the post, via, say, a captcha, which would prevent bots from getting the key, and then voting.
This would then prevent bots from independently transacting with the blockchain, because they wouldn't have the key.
It would work.
Unless my meager understanding missed something important - which wouldn't suprise me =p
got shot down pretty quick by @netuoso -
captcha is easily broken
all it would take is a month or two to get a human driven team getting paid pennies to solve captchas
then you have an even more lucrative system for some hackers since they can get around the block others cant
shitty captcha is broken easily with OCR. quality captcha is outsourced to humans
plus, having to solve a captcha for every upvote would be a huge burden to place on users.
Well, I agree about captchas being totally unwieldy, particularly for every vote.
But, there is a part of the answer, because there is a way to create a portal to the blockchain that necessitates first viewing the post.
Imma think on it more.
Thanks!
That's not even the worst thing. Adding a captcha to a post, which would have to be as some kind of link to a service, introduces a third party service into voting access to a steem post. That is absurd.
Unfortunately, with retention as poor as it is, and distribution being the most likely cause, I am unconvinced it is more absurd than the present situation on Steemit.
I am sure we will have the opportunity to revisit this issue.
Perhaps you can suggest a better means of providing a key on a post which people can access and bots can't?
It's at least an interesting thought exercise.
Great!! then, that.. would provide humongous free advertising & promotion for the Steem token and the Steem blockchain. And definitely, would means that new flourishing faucet based Start-ups & bizniz models would start growing up everywhere like worms all over the internet to earn easy Steem. (same as when the beginnings of bitcoin)
What undoubtedly would attract a bunch of hungry people out there who can't or are unable to write a single phrase as to save their asses, but even so, would contribute to sky-rocketing the popularity and demand of our precious Steem/SBD/SP holdings.
Well, ¡Yeah! at least these new exclusive pauper captcha eaters and prolly also illiterate actors interacting with the Steem blockchain in this way, would be Actual Human Beings milking humbly the system to be able to eat & fill their bellies and not Dumb/Blind/Greedy bot rapists fattenning the already obese asses of the greasy owners of the bots. }:)
¿Burden?, Ha! only for those Lazy Asses sort of users who are not willing to READ or aren't interested on consume good content and/or also refuse to Consciously Work for their rewards.
I mean, I think I've already talked too much. I better shut up now and I start working immediately in the programming and creation of a brand new Steem Faucet Website..... :p
In my view, the cons outweigh the pros - but it is mostly a matter of opinion.
Yeah mate. That's true. ¡Opinions! I suppose that weighing of the 'cons vs the pros' must be just matter to know from where and from what side of the fence you are weighing these scenarios.
¡If this is from the side of those who play the game with an empty stomach or the opposite! }:)
It's an interesting proposal. I'll pass on the idea to some devs to bounce it off a few more people.