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RE: Throw-Away-Accounts is a problem - I suggest that in order to be allowed to FLAG a post - the account FLAGGING needs to have a MINIMUM of 50 positive posts and more then 100 SP
Great and hopefully simple proposition.
Accounts really need to "unlock" the flagging ability, even if it's by having a minimum account age, a certain amount steem power, a certain reputation level, or some other mechanism.
On an unrelated note - I really enjoy the content you produce ;)
I think a simple way is just make it the same as the "unlock" to WD vesting steem. I think its like 10X what the system gives you on sign up.
replying here due to nesting. a really simple fix would be to make flags not count until some critical threshold between positive votes and negative votes is reached. So for example, say 5:1... so if an account had $10 worth of upvotes, flags would be invisible and have no effect until there were at least $2 worth of downvotes. But at $2, the full amount of flag would kick in. This way, users could still cast their negative votes, and they would still count (at least to get the post to critical mass, which is still something) but if they were in a vast minority their vote would be ignored as an extreme outlier.
"unlocking" this type of thing is indeed a great idea. In fact, it might be best to let people upvote flags people give to posts to give them more weight and those whose flags receive a good amount of SP behind them will gain a good reputation for flagging posts that are problematic.
Flagging posts then could be like a curation job, but where you actually get paid to essentially "specialize" in it. :)
I agree with both of you. A sort of "shield mode" until a certain value is needed.
I also thought we used to have a system where someone with a lower reputation couldn't flag someone with a higher reputation. Is that still even active?
I would disagree on this last proposal. "The powerful getting more powerful" is a fatal design-flaw in the site, everything needs to be done in order to restore more balance.
Another probably better option: Make the first 2 flags do not count.
It would help discover plagiarism faster than a shield mode, and zero the rewards more effectively at the moment multiple people would flag.
A the 3rd flag, all the flags (incl. 1 and 2) kick in and the post is put down.
So all they'd have to do is make 3 accounts then right? :)
It has to be something more difficult, but easy for most people to achieve with some positive participation on the platform.
ah upvoted that to soon, the powerful getting more powerful.. not a good thing .. but reputation level is a good one..