RE: Making SPAM fighting on Steem into a game of skill
I know that HiveWatchers is heavily criticised on Hive for its heavy handedness and this feels like it's heading in that direction... https://hivewatchers.com/
There were a lot of complaints when they were here, too. Not just the heavy-handedness, but also arbitrariness and alleged conflicts of interest. I could never decide if I thought they were a net-positive or net-negative. I think I delegated, undelegated, and redelegated to them a number of times.
The other big challenge is people highlighting a post as plagiarised, unaware that the author has a blog, website or photography portfolio elsewhere.
One of the big lessons from past efforts is the need for an appeal process when there is a central authority who is making the decisions. Of course, on the other side, that just makes abuse-fighting harder.
Those sorts of challenges are the reason why I've been trying to think about decentralized techniques like this game idea or quorum sensing and adjustments to the rewards algorithm to make abuse less profitable.
The nice thing about your idea to publish a daily report out of the game play is that multiple projects could develop competing lists in their own ways, and maybe the best would bubble up to the top. Maybe a part of the project should be to publish a standardized reporting format.
I think that I'm going to park the reskin for a while and work on this instead. I think it's got real potential for good if it's done well. Once a certain threshold's reached, a reply to the post could be triggered. Any reply from the author could be added to the game so that future players can see it - although the original author could decide to edit the content or suchlike so perhaps the original content could be saved.
Since the downvote trail is managed by somebody else, me writing the game and reporting the results could work well. I think that an initial version could be written in a couple of days so it's just a question of finding a couple of days 🤔
Your quorum sensing post offers an interesting idea. I think that to some degree ac-cheetah's downvote trail achieves this - especially in the knowledge that there are users with far high power backing you up. Like the gobshite kid who has the MMA world backing him up. I'll let my subconscious work on this one too.
I agree, the main difference is that it doesn't happen on a post-by-post basis. That might not matter much, anyway, though.