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RE: Steem and the Witness... If you don't like the behavior of someone here what can you do?
Great post, I think people will fight the unfair system by waiting for that FLAG button to disappear or at least to have +5 or +10 flags to be considered a downvote.
If this is not changed... minnows will start to cross the ocean to LBRY or others in the future
SO people have been claiming for a year now, yes I've been battling about the flag almost that long... a couple of weeks and it will have been that long.
If the +5 and +10 flags are implemented then you'll see the reign of spam and the reign of bots. We've seen it before. It is actually why the reputation system was created.
So sometimes you can think the answer is easy... but usually the reason it has not been done is that it creates other exploits or problems. It's not an easy problem. :(
Didn't even think about it. Chaos is then part of steemit with no solid solution
Chaos is part of nature. We seek to impose order on it, and that is generally what we try to do. That doesn't mean it is always an easy process. It also doesn't mean we shouldn't try. It does mean when the problem is complex we can propose and idea, but then it is generally good to think "how can this change be exploited". Case in point... HF19 did some great things for voting... yet we suddenly have people exploiting it and voting up mass quantities of their own comments to ridiculous amounts.
why not captchas and +5 or +10? Bot killer?
Steemit is just a website looking at the steem blockchain. That would not stop anything outside of steemit. People would just use the cli, write their own code, etc.
Steem is like a huge distributed file system. Steemit.com is but one television manufacturer that can tune into that file system and display it to you a certain way.
There are also steemdb, chainbb, busy.org, esteem, and zappl all looking at the same data. That number will grow.
So any solution needs to be done at the blockchain level if it is going to be a true code solution. Captchas won't work there as captchas are purely a web page bit of code and wouldn't actually have any effect in the blockchain itself.
Pretty much all the bots would be immune to it. They don't work through steemit or one of the websites they talk directly to the blockchain.