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RE: Of sock puppets and witch hunts
The SBI (Steemit board of Identity) is a small group of 7 individuals whos full identification documents are publicly recorded on the steem blockchain. A person who wishes to remain anonymous to the rest of the community can get SBI approved by providing their identification to those 7 individuals.
Those 7 seem to be complete control freaks who want to make this place Orwellian nightmare. Nobody has to identify themselves. Nobody has to do what some small inner-circle group orders. That is like NWO.
yes, nobody has to, but identity is related to reputation, so having an excellent reputation would go along with identification
I agree with @artific. Your group sounds creepy as fuck and it would in my eyes damage the reputation of anyone associated with it. It would also likely label anyone displaying your "stamp of approval" as if it adds value as having at best poor social intelligence.
I'd also question the judgement of anyone who gives their personal information to a self-appointed group of people on the internet who claim they want to protect it. It could quite easily be a honeypot intended for future use as blackmail, or more innocently but perhaps no less harmfully be incompetently run resulting in the information being leaked.
My advice: Stay away. Far away.
@craig-grant... I assume that you are joking about there being a Steemit Board of Identity... right? Right???
the best ideas always start as a joke, the SBI approval is not for everyone, only those who want to remain anonymous and still have a high value reputation to earn thousands of dollars in rewards per month, it's a very small amount of individuals who would fit that profile
The idea of having to give me identity to 7 people I don't know is actually very frightening. I like that it is an option for those who feel safe to use it as I see it contributes to transparency, but it is not an option I would undertake given my particular situation. As someone whose anonymity is the basis for her safety, I do believe the practice of requiring individuals to identify if they are not found to be contributing pre-published materials to be an unnecessary act of control, especially in the data age. I see the value, but I also see it as a dangerous practice and precedent.
Hello Honeyscribe - I personally have 4 different Steemit user accounts. One of which I want to use as a pseudonym to publish my science fiction. I have not done so myself, but I see nothing morally wrong with your two accounts having a conversation with each other in the comments. And using multiple accounts to vote for each other is not immoral either.
@freedomengineer you are a brilliant individual and from what I hear the ladies whisper... sexy as hell! I'd like to buy you a cup of coffee sometime.
@troi, you know we are too lazy to drive all the way to Tim's. Just walk your bitch ass to the kitchen and make US a cup.
(ok I can see how this sock-puppet convo can be weird and disingenuous.)
It is weird. I don't think it would have occurred to me to try it if I hadn't thought it would differentiate my accounts and protect anonymity. I enjoyed your exchange though. Perhaps you are using it as a form of performance art, and because you introduced it with transparency, it would not be considered harmful? I think this forum would care most about upvoting in your case below.
You are absolutely right to feel that way. Ignore this SBI nonsense.
We just started SteemVerify. Kind of a 'soft verification' system.