A proposal for a spam-less exponential increase of the Steemit user base
One of the biggest problems right now for Steemit is automating signups on the Steem blockchain without incurring large pockets of spam users. This issue has been brought up by Jeff Berwick among others at Steemfest. I think I've found a way to generate a network effect for signing up new users to Steemit that avoids the pitfalls of automated signup.
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Since there’s already a large pool of social media users out there, we don’t really need to use automated sign up, but instead establish already known legitimate users on sites like Facebook and Twitter and invite them to sign up using a “vouch for” system. Experienced users of Steemit can submit friends from other platforms and earn Steem doing so or if they promote a spam account, be penalized (either in reputation or Steem/SteemPower) for doing so.
Most users of Steemit already have significant followings on Facebook and Twitter (I’ve been near my FB friend limit for over 3 years now). We should be using the Steemit reward system to reward successful signups a small amount of Steem to both promoters and signees. Steemit users with a higher reputation score would be allowed to sign up more users per week than users with more average scores. If the score goes below 25 (or maybe 30), then that user cannot be a promoter.
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Although I’m a programmer, I’m not familiar with the technical specs of the Steem blockchain to actually make this work. I doubt that this idea is really that new, but in case it is, @ned should be made aware of it. I think the key is to decentralize signup, by distributing signup admin duties based upon reputation.
I’ve already had several people say they’ve tried to sign up for Steemit and are still awaiting account confirmation.
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Great idea. As a writer, I have lots of friends on fb but it would be hard to bring them over because they are totally new to crypto payouts.
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