You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Meet Steem's #1 Author!

in #steemit7 years ago

I quite liked that idea, but apparently it was very controversial. It would have been a much better approach to "the experiment" of several months past.

These cancelling votes would be anonymous.

This would be nice - is it possible on this blockchain? You could match up the exact time someone's votes were canceled with the exact time someone canceled the votes, match the amounts, and then it would lose anonymity.

Sort:  

That is something I wondered since Dan talked about it. It seems almost impossible but maybe there's something I'm not aware of.

In my last article I introduced the concept of smart ballots that would automatically vote the opposite of a person of your choosing while maintaining full secrecy of their vote. @dantheman [Source]

Thank you @teamsteem for your post and yes I do think having a downvote option would be a great solution for post like this and abuse

your welcome hahahaha

It is impossible for @dan's proposal to be more anonymous than sock-puppet accounts already provide, as @biophil has pointed out.

I'm not saying that it's possible, it seems counter-intuitive but Dan seemed to have hint at it being possible. He's Dan the main architect of this platform.

Well, it is conceivable that some code could be crafted to make anonymity, but presently, the most anonymous mechanism is sock-puppets, and even that, as @sherlockholmes has showed, isn't perfect.