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RE: Case 11: Aliexpress and some voting-bots, making rewards without an effort!
Heres an interesting idea. Strip people like this of all their accounts bar one (That should be the default for everyone anyway.) Not sure how you could definitively prove ownership but it's a thought. :-)
Problem is that Steemit don't control the accounts. It's like Bitcoin accounts in that each user has the control. All we can do is to flag accounts to destroy their reputation, but that doesn't stop them moving funds around.
Sadly, life and experience has taught me that only honourable people care about reputation. The vast majority couldn't give a tinkers fart what others think while in pursuit of money. :-(
Such dishonorable inventivness is typical of the cash starved but internet savvy netizens of countries like India, Indonesia, Pakistan etc. As @laylahsophia pointed out in her post above, even small 0.2 SBD rewards are enough motivation for them.
I fear that this can to become a survival issue because there is nothing inherently in Steem that will 'reward' quality rather than 'quantity'. (Quantity obtained from 100 bot-accounts/paid followers who mindlessly upvote/ downvote whatever you tell them to)
Do we have some sort of overriding delegated authority though? Like, A downvote from a senior enough member should become punitive enough. The problem is then that this goes against the whole concept of decentralization :(
Can we have community-chosen grand wardens. That'd be cool..Though there'll have to be some mechanism to avoid entrenchment of power..
Wow..I should write a post with these ideas.:)
Fortunately closing accounts or taking them away is not an option in a decentralized system like steem.
:-(