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RE: Mining Steemit With a Teaspoon
Why dont we just ban self upvotes, I didnt see an explanation of why that isnt possible. If the platform lets me do it, why cant I do it?
Why dont we just ban self upvotes, I didnt see an explanation of why that isnt possible. If the platform lets me do it, why cant I do it?
Because it is too easy to open another account and vote between yourself and your sock-puppet. For those who wish to profit from that mechanism, there is no real barrier at all. Hence why my proposed new rules treat voting-for-self the same way as voting-for-other. If you find a new author and wish to give 2 or 3 or 4 upvotes quickly, that can still be done, but if that creeps up to 8 or 9 or 10 then that becomes less and less profitable if those votes are purely profit-seeking.
And yet it is not difficult to highlight suspiciously high vote-exchange rates between particular users. :c) It is for this reason that it would (hopefully) be unviable to just create 100 bots and self-vote between them.
Yes, that is all doable, but what are the consequences? We can see the start of this already. Someone has to take the responsibility as "enforcer", the only current deterrent is flagging; so we could end up with a spam-war, vote-war, flag-war scenario. All of it ugly and wasteful.
I would like to see a more elegant and universal solution.
As I have said many times, such behaviour cannot be totally eradicated; it can be managed to limit damage to the whole ecosystem. Rather like governments trying to limit drug abuse (although the issues get dark very quickly, take any other "banned substance" as an example).
Yes I see what you are saying, but right now I can operate a sock-puppet and self vote as well, its a double whammy
Doesn't help doing both as would have to split SP between the two, so same income. It can be a way to remain "under the radar" but makes no difference in income.
Sure, but the sock puppet route is way harder than simply clicking the upvote button on your own post, only dedicated bad actors will do the former, whereas uneducated new users may easily do the latter. You also get newbie SP delegation on sock puppets. My point is, if the community broadly agree that self upvoting is wrong, just disable it.