If it receives a vote it deserves its reward.
There are ways to identify spammers that dont include making the game pointless to the majority of the nonpopular.
How about implementing downvotes for witnesses to get bad ones out?
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I tend to agree. Raising the threshold for payout will disincentivize new users/minnows which is definitely not what you want when you are trying to grow a platform and while there may be no short term financial harm in doing so, I think it will have a long term impact. There must be better ways to handle spam.
There are ways. Like reversing the hardfork that brought this on.
But selfvoting and vote selling are features, dont you know?
Imo, this is just a shot across the bow of the nonpopular speakers here.
Either start kissing whale ass or get demonetized.
Well, to be fair...
You can’t really kiss much whale ass anymore. They have mostly disengaged or delegated their stake to bid bots and spammers. So, in order to be “seen,” the game now is to pay bid bot owners (who mostly don’t even have their own stake in the platform - which reduces accountability and, consequently, overall quality) or try to join one of the many collusive voting groups that pretend to be “communities.”
I’m not one to focus only on the money aspect (because I think expectations are way too high for new users), but the fact that the system in general has become a de facto pay-to-play scheme is the exact opposite of how Steem has been “advertised.” Right now, we seem to only be able to attract spammers, scammers, and the general refuse of social media pseudo-“celebrities.” This isn’t a sustainable growth model in the long-term, especially if actual competition arrives.
The disturbing part, however, is that the direction doesn’t seem to be changing, despite all of the problems. In fact, the current proposals from STINC are essentially doubling down on the stupidity. Their incompetence and the culture here has so far been protected by irrational crypto pumps. If it weren’t for these price pumps, the failures of “leadership” would be much more tangible and much less palatable.
Yep, until they run out of bigger fools this is what we get.
Its very telling about the mindset at the helm.
Now they've had time to build an outer circle to insulate themselves from the unwashed.
Its sad what they have done.
We could've been well on our way to becoming the default cryptocurrency.
Instead we are wasting time being a scam coin because scammers are at the helm.
Smdh.
Thank you!
Np.