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RE: @buildawhale blacklist update

in #buildawhale7 years ago

People are upset bots are used to promote garbage, I have tried to stop it since I started the project, but apparently doing it on the sidelines going through the supported means wasn't public enough. So I started a more aggressive and public approach.

Doesn't matter if he is on trending or not, he is diluting the value of Steem and creating even more bloat on the platform.

I can't deal with the abuse people like Sweetsssj's abuse as I have no power to do anything for that sort of abuse.

I can deal with things I have the power to do something about.

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You know, I've been thinking about that exact issue. Flagging holds a particular psychological effect, and you know, I just learned last night that Ned Scott has an educational background in economics AND psychology. Would you be surprised if I told you that you've become "addicted" to flagging? Or that most Steemians are addicted to Steemit? To me this explains a lot of the stress and anxiety over payouts. It might explain the incessant spamming.

I know about Sweetsssj's abuse, as well as most of the others. This is why you have my support, because I can see you wield some power here, and you're using it for good, which seems to be a minority here.

But it almost seems you're trying to buck the entire system as it was designed. I'm pretty sure Ned and the rest of Steemit Inc couldn't care less about the abuse, because they know they designed the system to actually reward the largest stake holders, regardless of the content added to the blockchain. The system is design so that as long as any content is added, it generates tokens. This idea of "subjective proof of work" is actually nonsense, sense it takes close human scrutiny to determine quality, and that's not something you can "design" into a system. Instead, they've played off the idea that you're "supposed" to add quality content, but only for psychological reasons.