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RE: 100 DAYS OF STEEM : Day 33 - Tackling Abuse on Steem - Part I - What is Abuse?
I think abuse should be defined in the code. If the code allows something, it's no longer abuse imo. If we don't want people to self-upvote for example, we should stop that from being allowed in the code. Or if we don't want people to post more than once a day, let's limit that in the code. The alternative is mob rule.
It's not that easy. What is a self-vote? A vote from Account-A to Account-A? People will just use a different account then ;)
That's right so as long as the code allows it, imo it should not be considered abuse.
Whales here have been colluding and upvoting each other, taking most of the rewards but when the upvote buying program through bidbots was introduced they mercilessly cracked it down by free downvotes. This type of behavior only drives people away from the platform. But if everyone simply goes by the code and stops the mob rule behavior, we will all be much better off down the road. Otherwise, it will be a platform for self-upvoting whales. In other words, as long as whales do it through proxies, it's all good. But God forbid if average people PAY and BUY some upvote.