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RE: Too Much Fluff: flagging and Steemit - What does the community think about my flagging habits?
This should be implemented in a way similar to live-streaming sites like YouTube and Twitch, where your explicit monetary contribution to a creator grants them visibility as well as the reward. This feature will become increasingly important to sustain small but talented creators. I am aware any user can easily tip using steem but an explicit, client representation is needed.
Since we have no fees in Steem, you can pseudonymously tip yourself at no cost to yourself. It would be easy to detect this happening cyclically, but even without cycles this would be a very easy system to cheat.
This actually does raise an important point. The Sybil tipping attack would be interesting. This would most likely be a layer on the steemit front-end where tips show up in colors on the side of the post or something. How the tips influence the PageRank will definitely need to take into account the tip Sybil attack you mention.