i'd ban self voting. it makes no sense.
i'd also ban all auto-voting. anything that is repetitively is most likely abuse.
so we could target patterns of behavior that promote good posts and remove those people that are clearly just biased voters.
yes I do think your vote should be nullified if it is used automatically in anyway that isn't a human behind a computer.
people love extremes, but moderation would be needed. people downvoting just because without justification... i see that as another area that needs to be addressed, expecially since we have whales that can flog someone in revenge. i think there should be repercussions to violence (downvotes) cast without justification.
yes I think we should all be required to write an explanation.
I tried not autovoting for a week and turned it back on because those authors are authors i want to read/support and couldnt remember 150+ names.
hmm. while i laud you efforts to support so many, I question if it is the best thing for content promotion. i like people but i don't always upvote things they do. it isn't always good.
imagine then, a world in which people work hard in the beginning then just shitpost to grab the autovotes. that is the world I see, unfortunately.
i think it is just life if you don't see it, don't get to it...
I agree, although I'm currently on a few curation trails to spread my vote around (though with a fairly low percentage). Also it adds weight to a few curation projects that I trust to curate. Besides that I am manually voting so far.
In terms of the layers abuse I don't consider handling automatic voting for people you support as a top priority. Especially since it distributes the rewards more widely than not anywho.
The other point is some people auto vote to send rewards back to the author as much as possible. (Early curation window). I suppose it really is on us to audit these continuously though.
people get busy, lives move on. i love the idea of auto-curation. but I am afraid of its implications. I like the idea of curation projects (more people, less likely to fall apart or change without notice).
I have had folks do that, but then i unvoted them.
Mostly they stop posting when they dont get more support than just me.
Ive got plenty of dead accounts in my steemvoter list.
i agree that it doesn't sound like your a problem. you are so active. if everyone was as active as you we wouldn't be having this conversation!
but i'm imagining a system that isn't dependent upon people to perform their duties as they should. any system will have issues, problems.. seeking to minimize the dependence how individuals interact with the system, so no matter what they do, it is within the realm of what the platform was intended to be.
I always wondered about that actually. They could really prevent a lot of problems by not allowing it to begin with. Because just because one can easily get around it with just two accounts doesn't mean it wouldn't reduce the abuse (from people that are too lazy to do this for example).
I don't expect explanations to help very much since most people would simply write "disagree with rewards" or something. But who knows.
the idea that people will just go around it rotten indeed.
agreed that downvoting moderating would be difficult.