What if the Flagger is a White Hat? 🌀
Most of you are probably aware by now, of a flagging rampage that a certain bot has been on for a day and change. To clarify the situation, there are no posts or comments on the bot's profile, it has a rep of 25, and it has flagged hundreds? of posts. The curious thing is that each flag is only worth -1%, and the account was just created and funded with about 1000 SP.
Although surely annoying to those hit by it, since what the bot is doing is largely irrelevant in terms of its effect, I think there is a specific message being delivered here; while still in beta, we are meant to pose a few simple questions, and discuss them as a community.
- What if the flags were -100%?
- What if the account were funded more significantly?
- What if it was a fleet of bots?
- ???
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I honestly can't think of another reason that someone would fund an account with just a few bucks, then do nothing but vote -1%... Anyone else?
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Melech ben Chaya מלך בן חיה, @inphiknit
My guess is it's someone making a statement about the nature of flagging in general. There's been a lot of talk about flags, especially from whales, in the recent past, and perhaps this relates to that. The fact that it is only 1% says to me it's less malicious, and more political.
Seems to be the only logical reason to go to the trouble... Thanks :)
I think it's just someone that's either trying to desensitize the community to downvoting (which I can see an argument for) or more likely, someone who's trying to piss people off and get them infighting.
It's not very ethical to actually run a bot like that to disrupt things on a live system, so it'd be grey-hat at best. Reminds me more of a classic eco-terrorist movie villain or something 😄 Poison the water supply so they will clean up the environment, or kill off all humans in the process, thus cleaning the water supply long term. 😉
That said, you have a great point here, I think it could also be someone trying to force the hand of the devs to implement a UI fix for flagging. Might even be one of the devs themselves! I can easily imagine one of the prominent technically minded whales doing something like this, especially since there's been some friction between some of them recently. 😅
It will rip the scab off of flagging. Exposing, we can all survive a flag.
Probably!
oh it's a bot? lololol causing all this rukus
Yeah, it's a bot, but it didn't create itself, just sayin'.
That's my understanding based on other's information, I could very well be wrong though.
IDK I comment spammed as @jillstein2016 manually so much people thought it was a bot. Was the reason for the 20 second wait on comments and the 4 post soft limit. Could be a bot or just some guy
I was thinking the same, because of the 1% downvote
I plucked the pre-existing idea from the aether^^
Flag seem to matter to people whether they have a material affect on rewards and reputation or not. This means the effectiveness of their intended function is limited. We can address this by changing ourselves, becoming more aware and less sensitive or by coming up with another solution for limiting rewards, abuse, plagiarism and spam. @asshole's flagging may have been an experiment.
There is definitely something to learn here... Thanks^^
Good points, but it still doesn't stop me from hoping it's creator contracts the worst case of genital warts ever known in the history of humans. I'll get my bokor right on that.
Better stay on your good side!
only a joke.
I know, me too ^.~
Lol. Take it easy. 😃
was joke. heh.
Interesting... this whole flag thing is very annoying. Admins should do something against it
Definitely annoying, but I'm sure this has got the devs thinking of a few ideas!
@berniesanders will crash the price of Steem
I can't stand these spammers. There should be a filter of some sort.
Yes, where's @asshole when you need him?
We need something more powerful. Cheetah for FUD.
"Fudah" maybe? or "spam eater".
They're all matrixdweller's bots ☹️ They are on another kind of experiment too
We need to make downvotes less powerful and create a separate flag that's only meant for punishing abuse.
Busy.org currently display likes and dislikes. They have already started thinking about even better systems.
It's the next logical step for sure