RE: Towards a decentralized, abuse resistance framework for the Steem blockchain
Interesting ideas. If I understand this correctly, it's basically a kind of further instance or consortium of users who can influence the amount of a post's payout. Hmm, difficult.
The longer I've been involved with Steem, the more difficult it seems to me to develop a fair system. For a long time I thought that the success of Steem would essentially depend on the way in which rewards were distributed fairly.
One of my ideas for achieving this goal was that votes could only be given manually. Of course, the vote services would not be enthusiastic about this idea, as it would take away the basis of their business model. Today I am no longer so convinced of my own idea, although I still think that posts with only one picture and a few words that are valued at several 100$ do not convey a good image.
It would certainly be interesting to see what effects the implementation of your proposed ideas would have.
Thanks for the reply!
Right, it's intended to crowdsource abuse resistance while protecting the participants from retaliation. It would be ideal if the rewards algorithm handled this automatically, but it's clear that it doesn't (in its current implementation). So, unless someone is going to design and implement a new rewards algorithm, we need to make adjustments at the next layer.
This has been proposed many times over the years, but I honestly don't think it's technically possible with the blockchain's design. Personally, I don't see automatic voting as being much different from Google's automatic search indexing. It could never scale if Google asked people to do it manually. IMO, if it's designed right, it's a good thing, but we're currently saddled with suboptimal designs.
Yeah, I definitely agree on this point. (possibly with very rare exceptions)