Thank you @mindtrap for influencing me on reaching out more of the community. I have embedded a post of my own with some "attitude" and personality of the message I also would like to pass.
But mostly, the idea was also to capture first the ones that don't care about, and make them understand (in case they like my personal story about BEER) that users on the STEEM community have really great value and fight back for what they like most.
There is no reason why not everyone at this stage have not more voting VESTs as the fake witnesses. You either are with the community, or you should just leave.
Introspection... I know how it would be possible to kill some of these attacks in the future:
- Each user would only be able to cast vote for 4 witnesses.
- If a user does not vote for 4 witnesses, 90% of their rewards are burned or moved to @steem.dao!
- Voting decays or expires (up for discussion) after 1 year AND after every HF (whichever is shorter).
- If the voted witnesses become disabled and the user does not change the vote after 24 hours, then 90% of the rewards should either be burned or moved to @steem.dao.
I believe these measures will drastically change the education of the community. Initially it will some great impact on new users, but ultimately it will cleanse the blockchain from impostors and scammers.
Hmm, I guess that would trigger everyone to cast their votes regardless if they only care about blogging. Interesting.
Kinda brutal. I mean real life happens too and a two or three days break from the platform for some people isn't unusual. But overall I think those measures could be discussed. You should drop your ideas during the next Town Hall which is...today.
Thanks a lot... I would attend, but I am on UTC+13 and it kind of would be hard for me.
Although the ideas are there... I agree they are a bit brutal... but necessary for a "temporary" effort... which afterwards, could be relaxed uppon agreement.