"There are people who are motivated to act in ways that break other peoples toys just because it is fun."
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From the Whitepaper:
"Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal.
Even those who are attempting to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive mining done via mining pools.
All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its currency."
So Dan, where do you stand regarding abuse of the platform?
is it good when it's a certain type of abuse you like but bad when it's another type you don't like?
why not have an option on your page that says " filter bots on or off" - leave the choice to the end user. If they want bots filtered on their wall they should have an option for it, if not they should be able to filter it out so their blog subscribers dont need to deal with that.
I agree with this. Let the interface be user centric and personalized. Also let the poster have some abilities to adjust how their posts are presented on the Trending or other pages so that unnecessary conflicts may be avoided. This is particularly going to be important as you get into the millions of users.
I agree with Dana, its the only highly scalable way.
@kingjohal #STEEMBOTSTAY to get them to stay out and #STEEMBOTCOME to invite them in. Add that to your post and I know 6 bots that will stay out or come in. This was discussed in the STEEMBOTS proposal, but I won't link it because I don't want to keep spamming.
Bot builders can sort this ourselves I think.
Well, look at the 200 posts with the biggest payouts, the abuse is rampant.