@stehaller Conditioning with punishments and rewards does not achieve desirable outcome, it has never achieved desirable outcomes and it never will achieve desirable outcomes.
I know that can be a bitter pill swallow, as the saying goes, if the only tool you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail.
Its time Steemit users started to develop better tools for developing a better world. If we keep doing what we have always done we will always get what we already have
In the real world I totally agree. But here too many people are gaming the system, which hurts the long time growth perspectives of this platform
I wish there would be another way to stop people gaming the system, but I don’t see another way.