RE: 100 DAYS OF STEEM : Day 33 - Tackling Abuse on Steem - Part I - What is Abuse?
The priorities seem a little... misplaced? Hive supporters trolling, hive supporters this, etc.. I don't think Hive supporters are the main form of abuse that needs to dealt with on Steemit.
What about plagiarism? What about identity theft? Do you not consider those forms of abuse worthy of fighting? It takes a ton of work to find those types of abuse and who is going to put in the time to do it if you want Steemit inc to just be the judge and not actively seek out and combat it?
You'll have to incentivize users with some form of compensation if you want people to be interested. Steemcleaners and Spaminator had delegations so that they could use their downvote power to clean up a lot of things. Regular users could submit any abuse they found and at least be nominally rewarded for it. Running something like those takes a lot of time and effort and hopefully you have some idea in place to replace the bulk of what they did.
Dear @fingolfin
I believe that it's a step in right direction. Obviously there is huge number of issues that need to be addressed and right now it seem to be important to decide, is such a powerful stakeholder as STINC should get involved or should not.
Can we protect ourselfs without pretty much anyone protecting us any more? I hardly doubt so.
I believe that there is enough people out there, who will be interested in supporting that idea. Many people will see it as an opportunity to combat abuse. Which otherwise we cannot stand against. That's not an even match.
I wish to see better option. However, I dont :(
Yours,
Piotr
@fingolfin - Exactly!