When I was a more naive Steemian, I was concerned both auto-voters and voting bots were going to take over / ruin Steem. However, I was forced into using both of them to succeed here.
It doesn't even matter, because you can't stop bots without centralization.
I don't know what we're supposed to be doing on this platform anymore. Is this all just a proof of concept for Smart Media Tokens?
The only thing I know we are doing for sure on this platform is trying to make money. After all, I am an Ethereum miner that was looking for another way to earn cryptocurrency without having to buy more mining rigs. I joined this platform originally with the intention to just make money. Right now, I am not sure if I am here to make money or to enjoy the community, or maybe a little bit of both.
I don't know about you, but I enjoy this drama WHILE making some money.
It better not break at the end though. I like this toy.
Agreed! Who needs Facebook nowadays anyway?
Man, that thought feels dirty. Are we just tiny parts of a grand social experiment?
I haven't cashed out yet to fiat, but maybe if/when I do I'll be a bit less salty about my part in all this. At least I'll be walking away with dollars in my pockets, and maybe no small amount of blood on my hands.
Hopefully none of us will be cashing out anytime soon!
Use the witness vote system already in place to allow the witnesses to inact a ban hammer of sorts, boom done. And it's still decentralized.
Witness voting is stake based.
...annnnnd we are back at square 1.
A community brings this to the witnesses, witnesses vote amongst each other to impose mass vote, users do the research and make the final choice. Rarely used, but would show fuckers the potential losses of coming with that bullshit. We already have mass voting built in. And think about it, how else does a decentralized platform protect itself? Fb,YouTube centralized control mass bans people, I'm not talking that we do that- but we have to protect ourselves too. That's why the flags are in play, but they aren't working.