Hard disc space is limited regardless of spam.
Imagine Google's data center having to be multiplied over 30 times in order to decentralize it.
Is it economical? Is it efficient? Is it practical? On retail PCs located within homes??
If the above is not enough, add spam that can not be deleted, and spam bot farmers. How sustainable is it?
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It would seem we are pretty far from that being our limiting reagent, no?
A future hard fork could discard all flagged/hidden content in the future, yes?
I'm not saying this would even be a good thing, necessarily, but the potential is there to shed parts of the database based on witness consensus?
Good points, thanks for the information.
Automatic deletion of flagged content is a bad idea, due to reasons @seraph exists for, and for more reasons Steemit exists for.
Still, there should be additional judgement (human, or even AI) taken prior to a deletion.
But deletion must be done, because the current Steemit model is self-defeating.
Look at sherlockholmes' work.
How this place demands deletions
Yeah, that's what I meant. Not an automatic deletion so much as community-agreed guidelines for filtering some stuff for deletion.
I really like the concept though the content can only be hidden, deleting blocks will actually de-value steem if im right.