RE: Possible solution to content flooding the blockchain with junk. "The 24 hour new article probationary period"
You have a good point right here! What makes me afraid of this approach is that barely nobody who is new here will not ve able to gain any reputation in maybe weeks or months of work, and this will only increase the gap between minnows and the well known whales which are able to post a photo and one or two rows of content and still be able to make 20+ votes in the first 10 minutes after the post got submited. I guess that your proposal is good, bju the limits for an article to be keeped need to be a little bit lowered. I found sometimes in the situation on writing posts at which I worked hard, but posts which do not meet the criterion of minimum 12 votes or 3 comments received, and I guess this is based on the fact that I don't have a lot of followers and not because the quality of my contents is low (which sometimes may be, but not always :). And since I don't have a great exposure, I will be never able to receive any rewards in this system, if we discart the low ones. What do you think?
Agreed... I was thinking of that the same problem. If the article was posted anonymously for 24 hours.. and people did whatever they could to splatter their name all over it, that would be unfair.
But imagine for a moment that no one did do that.. wouldn't it be so much easier and nicer to evaluate postings without knowing who wrote it. That would be so nice if we could do that..
I'm focusing on the "new" feed the most. Up at the top, where it says trending, new, hot, promoted.
The new feed doesn't matter if you have 1 follower or 2,000 during the probationary period, because all posts go there, and everyone can see them.
See.. these things were not anticipated on day one of this system. But the problem is very apparent now.
Knowing what we know now in this social media experiment, I bet day one of the blockchain some added safety nets could have been implemented to prevent some of these problems.
Human greed was underestimated I think.
Oh, so are you saying that their post should be removed only from new section and kept on their profile and in the news feed of their followers?
After the 24 hour window, yes, it could stay on their profile, and their followers could see it, and voting would happen normally.
As it stands now. 100% of articles are approved. 100% of articles get written to the blockchain, and 100% of articles can earn a few cents no matter what.
My method, about 30% of articles would ever get approved. 30% of articles would get written to the blockchain, and 30% of articles would earn a few cents to several hundred dollars.
The spammers and plagiarists would end up being starved out and they'd soon realize it wasn't worth it anymore to pound the system as heavy as they do.
Okay, this sounds good, and I guess it will work pretty well against the spam bots too. Maybe it's worth giving it a try!