Steemit.com updates - Savings accounts, New payout options, New registration process and more [release 0.0.20161011 PR 460]
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Email verification is worthless: it's trivial to create fake email accounts. Bot checking is not very effective as many click farms are operated as sweat shops off China with cheap labor . The phone verification was the absolute basic requirement to (somewhat) contain the click farm abuse and should have been there since day-1 but even that won't stop click farms: Facebook already has phone verification, and that doesn't stop click farms from farming hundreds of thousands of accounts because they buy SIM cards wholesale on the blackmarket and swap SIM cards between account creations. At best, this creates a fixed cost in time and resources: there are only that many SIM cards that can be swapped in a day of work, and it still has a cost to buy these SIM cards wholesale, so click farms will probably use all that they already have but may not buy more just to abuse Steem, at least not at the current growth level which buys some time.
Anyway, all that and much more was already discussed with @ned 6 months ago. Good to see that Steemit finally figures the hard way what they could have realized a long time ago by simply taking into account early advice.
Next thing you'll realize is that all the "good" (at this rate, it will soon include everything remotely pronounceable in english) have been taken already including every Fortune 500 companies, every media outlet, every celebrity, every crypto company and exchange, and top 1000 twitter posters etc. I told @ned to reserve these when it was clear that names were being squatted, but that was just shrugged off like everything else. Now you'll either have to expropriate the name holders and see the large libertarian and anarchist user base flee, impose a minimum reputation requirement to holding a "premium" account, or tell interested companies that they'll have to make do with "google123" and "amazonsteemit". Such a pity that something that would have been trivial and painless in the early days becomes such a pain later on when all it would have taken to avoid it was being a bit more proactive and receptive to feedback.
Sad but possibly true.. The namesquatting is out of control but at least this is a step in the right direction :)
In most countries anonymity is completely lost after providing phone number.
Hmm, that's a good point, I wonder how phone numbers are actually stored? As it's sensitive personal data, it would make sense to encrypt it and just store some hashed version of it that couldn't be reverse engineered from the blockchain. And the only valid use for it should be limited to blocking multiple account creation attempts.
Oops something is wrong after upgrade, I could not edit my comment. I just wanted to add that since pseudonymous accounts are mined by witnesses what will stop the gpu miner to mine another 30k if needed?
I don't think that is really the problem they are trying to solve. The phone authentication is just for the Steemit.com signups where the user gets free Steem in their account for signing up. If users want to create multiple accounts through mining, AnonSteem, or some other means that doesn't use the free Steem, they are still welcome to do so.
Unfortunate but true - I'm not sure how else we can keep giving away accounts with preloaded value without it being abused otherwise. Anonymous is still an option if you mine or purchase the account with anonsteem - but these don't drain the faucet in exchange for fake facebook accounts
could change downvoted? with one people that check the flag, your post could disappear, even 8 peoples likes it, maybe likes less dislikes is better.
So when you decline payout, is it burned or does it go to curators?
Under what situations do you think it would be most appropriate to decline payout?
The author rewards never get created in the first place because theres no reward shares, but it does seem like curation rewards still apply at least on this post .. I'm not sure how this will be used yet, it'll be interesting to watch
Austinbank i really like some new updates but i am facing a problem before updates i can switch markdown to editor when i am writing my post but now i can't switch markdown to editor.
Sorry mate not sure what to suggest I haven't seen that issue yet..
I've noticed this too. I suspect it is a glitch. I'll report it when I get home tonight, if it is not already fixed by then.
Thanks for bringing these changes to our attention! I'm happy to see the web site continues to evolve at a decent pace, and these are all great changes. The phone verification is particularly important to stop account sign-up spam. The decline payout option seems like a mere band-aid though; can't imagine many whales voluntarily making use of this, but I guess we'll see. It might make more sense to have a "if you have more than X Steem Power, then your posting rewards will be diminished by Y percent" rule. That way, posting rewards will go down past a certain point encouraging whales to focus more on curation.
Thanks for the comment, I agree on the first 2 points but I feel that rule change would encourage more sockpuppet accounts instead..
I've had some thoughts to encourage both curation and the use of the 100% SP option but it really needs a full post to explain how it would work, its on the to-do list :)
Wouldn't sock puppet accounts be avoided by the fact that Steem Power is not transferable? A whale looking to divide his holdings into multiple accounts would first have to power down into liquid Steem. New whales I suppose could set up multiple accounts from the start if they have really deep pockets (presumably they could buy plenty of burner phones to get around the phone number validation as well).
Looking forward to seeing your more in-depth thoughts on how to encourage curation, etc.
The main purpose for this is so that when @dantheman, @ned, etc. create posts that are official Steemit communication, that they don't take from the reward pool when the post gets a lot of votes. Some witnesses may use it to if they feel that their efforts are getting sufficiently rewarded through witnesses pay, and don't need to double dip and also get paid through their post.
It is possible that some altruistic whales might choose to do it too, but I agree tthat this probably won't happen very often.
Yeah, that makes sense. I guess the whole "with great power comes great responsibility" thing comes into play here. Let's hope the Powers That Be use it wisely!
Excellent information, thanks.
I'm glad you pointed out the savings and decline completely options.
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Please don't spam unrelated links ..:)Another one, my steemit now looks like this ;)
Not that I am complaining as I am used to Links... ;-) Anyway, good job on the update, thanks for the post.
Aaha oops css fail :P Thanks!
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You went from thinking it was a good article that you were sharing around to just deleting everything and unvoting .. Did I miss something here ?
Cant un-resteem it at least :)
@ausbitbank.
Don't worry, i am doing some cleaning with my posts, not only here.
Sometimes, I don't like my own posts!
Nothing to do with your post.
Beside that, i don't understand all of it but what i saw in your post sounded right to me as an humble Steemit user.
You are still on top of our blog resteemed.
:))
See you!