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RE: How-to solve SPAM and Democratize Steem: Introducing UserAuthority
My father who is 72 joined steemit in August 2016 because he bought steem as an asset. He does not use this "wallet" to post. But as i joined and sometimes write, he likes to upvote me. He has few followers and no posts and votes for me and what i resteem only. How many unique users like him exist that will be identified as bots? How many false positives is too many?
Very good question. First, don't worry. Second, please don't confuse UserAuthority with "false flagging bot accounts". Let me explain:
Cheers.
I do like your response and clarifications contained within. I am riding in my girlfriends car on our way to go to dinner with Dad now so I cant properly respond at length. Its great food for thought and future implementation within tustable media.
Drive safe! I'm not planning on leaving! ;-)
I do like your style because you called my Father a small user with a steem power of over 12,000. There's great irony buried in your suggestion that my father wastes votes in this context. Because he doesn't vote much, his potential share of the rewards pool goes to other users lol.
PS: I've just published a follow-up article!
UserAuthority (UA): explanations, applications and implications
PS2: you mentioned your father bought steem as an asset, as an investment therefore, not as a blogging tool. From the perspective of his own investment him not voting often leads to missed-out Curation Rewards for him. That's what I meant ;-)
That simply does not change the fact that his missed-out rewards are the gained-rewards of others.
I mean take me as an example, over half of my SP is delegated to benefit others. That equals missed out curation rewards. It is money that I earned and spent on steem.
Anyway, I didn't mean to give investment advice ;-)
Just don't worry your father will be falsely identified as a spammer or bot: he won't