RE: Is SteemPower Useful for Other Blockchain Apps?
This is only undermining and vague speculating, and really confusing, on purpose! I'm beginning to think you're waging an information war.
Steem Power, as you know, is blockchain level and so it doesn't need have a purpose on any app built on steem (such as steemit.com) because it's already taken care of. The content-text is the platform, not the app. That it is a blog is an app, but is not directly related to SP.
To reiterate, SP is vested Steem. It currently gives holders a stake which has proportional influence on post and witness voting.
So any app on Steem that provides voting, thus allowing users to get Steem for their usage, would use SP indirectly as part of the voting system, by system design. More interesting is the use of Steem in apps or outside.
I think SteemPower may have been a big mistake...
If it was then so was the entire enterprise.
I keep thinking I'm going to stop commenting on your posts but then I see something outrageous and feel obliged! 😜
LOL, alright... I do think it may have been from what I'm seeing with respect to this one app where there is a community of people that are not represented equally in how things are evaluated. So I ask, what use does it have in other places, is it only useful on the text-platform where people accept this concentration of power this way? Does it work in other apps? Yet you think these are not valid questions to ask, which I didn't even mention. The questions I raised were even lest drastic than you claim. The power and control over the flow of information and evaluation of content in the apps is not something I like. But, you think asking these questions is bad and wrong of me? That is interesting.
I didn't and wouldn't say bad or wrong no. Undermining? Yes. Misleading? Yes. You seems to suggest I would silence you, but that's not my MO.
This article indicates you are willing to imply what is factually incorrect in order to make your broader points about power inequality, despite your better knowledge of the facts. And obviously I oppose that.
What's factually incorrect?
That Steem Power is used by any app. It's precisely the opposite, it's on the blockchain only. It's not the apps that give those that have a lot of SP influence, it's the Steem blockchain.
While UI is really important, it's not able to change how SP is used directly. An app could refuse to implement voting, but that would be kind of missing the point of Steem, no rewards would be dealt out.
Please read this comment which talks about the ideas I have been talking about, the management of community, and asks people to think about the issue: https://steemit.com/steemit/@krnel/consensus-exists-only-in-equalitarian-groups-where-everybody-has-the-same-rights-to-express-their-will-by-influence-and-be#@dwinblood/re-krnel-re-dwinblood-re-krnel-consensus-exists-only-in-equalitarian-groups-where-everybody-has-the-same-rights-to-express-their-will-by-influence-and-be-20170304t224936943z
I've been thinking about it of course, I promise 😅
It's a good comment by @dwinblood, I agree with a lot of it. Not really related to this though.
Yes it is. You try to point out how I'm misleading. I'm trying to get people to think about the issues in another way. Is there a use for SP beyond this aspect of control? Will this aspect of control work elsewhere? I didn't state it as such. I'm asking questions to get people towards thinking about that. call that misleading all you want. This is all related. I need to ask different types of questions. It relates to the management of the community and platform by those who have the power, and how that would work in other apps. Dwinblood's comment was about that control of power. Yet, you claim its not related... ok...
Here's a pre-pre-whitepaper for a music blockchain someone is working on:
Mission
Our mission is to add trust to the music business through full transparency by making the most of the blockchain technology. Instead of just moving the same old model to the internet or blockchain, full trust and transparency allows us to go even further, as to create a platform where everyone gets rewarded for they work they do.
There are different types of work:
For every action of work there’s a reward thus power, availability and sustainability belong to the community that is created on top of the following pillars.
Integrity
Every transaction is recorded in a decentralized, public and trustable blockchain.
Everyone has access to all records since the beginning of platform existence.
Every transaction is immutable and cannot be changed.
Community
No single entity controls the whole or majority of the system, instead it belongs to the whole community placing equal power in every and each unique individual.
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I like the sound of that more, the Community part, and that's the thing I'm trying to bring here, and get people to understand why that's better. Thanks. Peace.
I get that, and it might be better. I'd be happy for Steem to try it out in a hardfork. We are in beta still after all. Then see if it works or blows everything up 🙂