there are two major problems on Steemit.
Flaggin and bots.
both should be written OUT of the code.
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there are two major problems on Steemit.
Flaggin and bots.
both should be written OUT of the code.
I don't know about flagging necessarily; it seems a natural thing to have a downvote that correlates to upvotes. That said, there should be by now some clearly established standards for good flagging and abusive flagging. We're decentralized, so there isn't going to be Steemit, Inc. bearing down on us to wag a finger or slap someone's wrists. However, those of us seeing this should speak up loudly and vociferously to indicate just how wrong someone is for doing this.
you said
clearly established standards for good flagging and abusive flagging.
then you said
We're decentralized
cough, cough, cough
You can have clearly established standards without a centralized system. Case in point, common law. I'm talking about using social pressure to discourage individuals from blatantly abusing the downvote function.
you don't consider common law to be centralized?
amazing.
one person's abuse is another person's mission from god
who you gonna call?
I'm against flaggin. If you don't like something..ignore it...if you don't like what someone is posting...mute them.
flaggin violates ZAP.
So the only way something like murder is understood to be wrong is by having a centralized committee to declare it such? You can establish community standards based entirely on opinions. That's what markets do. You vote with your wallet. In this case, you vote on the behavior you disdain by being vocal about it. That creates precedent. Precedent leads people's decisions in the future.
the DEFINITION of murder is "unlawful killing"..guess who makes the laws?
and once again...what I believe should be and what IS are two different things.
If you've read many of my posts you might have come across where I speak of Dunbar's number, Rat Utopia, The Iron Law, Behavioral Sinks...or to put it another way..there are only two classes of people in the world..there are US..and there are THEM. Our laws for THEM are different for our laws for US.
sorry...facts suck don't they?
but observation supports the hypothesis..
You're completely ignoring the tradition of natural law that has existed since Sophocles, that is based in the idea of natural rights and reason. You're arguing from a utilitarian perspective, which cannot be supported by reason.
Again, societies have had law since time immemorial. They've had law well before centralized committees have decided them. Law can be reasoned from self-evident first principles without invoking any additional authority.
So, once again, we can establish standards of conduct via social pressure. Which is what I'm trying to do here and now.
I think @anarcho-andrei is talking about things like Life, Liberty, The Pursuit of Happiness which are self-evident truths.
My personal take on law is that it should be the system that endure the preservation of NAP. The person/s who face agression should have the right to use whatever force that is necessary to neutralize the First use of force as force can only be stopped by equal or greater force.
Those who violate the NAP can be punished in 3 ways.
#1: Compensating for the damage+inconveniences caused.(some PoS models use this to punish bad actors)
#2: Removal from the society.(Exile of a massive fraudster or jailing a violent psychopathic serial killer)
#3: Removal of several or all right/interactions. In Buddhist tradition, the full extent of this punishment is considered the gravest punishment. What monks do is that they cease to acknowledge the very existence of a bad actor. Everybody acts as if the punished one doesn't exist.
Less severe version would be travel restrictions like you can't get closer than ***meters to a certain place or person.
The 3 types of punishments were taken from an article I read regarding Tibetan Buddhism which explained the above 3 types of punishments as the only forms of punishment that doesn't give you bad karma.
I've talked about this a week ago at:https://steemit.com/steemit/@skeptic/the-steemit-issues-arguments-from-the-other-side-part-1-censorship
You are welcome to check it out. It was a good discussion.
Bots cannot be written out of the code. Their existence could be made a tiny bit more difficult, but they are bound to exist. And no flags would mean no option to deal with abuse. And a decentralized system needs that.
if nothing can be done then things are just peachy keen ain't they?
no reason to complain.
Pointing out the problems with specific solutions suggested is not an opinion on the original problems. I said that your no bots sentiment is unrealistic and that your no flags suggestion would create more serious problems than the current ones. I did not express an opinion on the problem and I didn't even criticize complaining about it.
Ok fine..
everything is peachy keen.
never mind.
Sure...