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RE: Steemit Witness solution for overly successful users like Haejin
I must agree.
How the Hell is it right to "level any playing field" after the game has started and everyone knew the rules beforehand?
Is after the fact arbitration the solution?
Naaaaah!
Namaste,
JaiChai
If we're going to be completely cynical – and I am, because it's my nature – then we must acknowledge that the rules as stated involve the ability to disenfranchise others as long as they're weaker than yourself.
Individually or collectively.
Those are the rules. Down votes exist. Down votes have been in the system since the beginning. They are as designed part of the rules.
They're a crappy part of the rules. They are a specific part of the mechanics of the game which actively work against the intended process of the game, especially taken simultaneously with the way that SP is distributed through the player base. (Fully acknowledging that the effects were much, much worse when the effects were exponential rather than linear.)
I take the position that even if we accept that it is possible to act to "level any playing field" – advocating for it, acting in that way, using the mechanics in that way, makes the game worse. Leveraging those mechanics makes the experience worse for other people, objectively and measurably. It works against the idea that reward is supposed to be in proportion to the quality of the content, as determined by the user base.
After the fact arbitration is the only kind of solution available in a system, because if we could determine where the problem would be before it happened – there wouldn't be a problem. That's also something we must accept.
But we should always attempt to move toward solutions which reward ourselves, because if we can't reward ourselves, no one gets rewarded. And it is in our best interests to reward content that we like and want more of rather than burn that SP on content that we don't want and don't want more of.
But that's just my analysis. People who have been here much longer than I and, perhaps more importantly for the sake of this argument, have vastly more SP than I do have publicly gone on jihad to say different.
No matter how I feel about that, it just doesn't matter.