He currently has the highest reputation on the entire blockchain, which is quite a problem if you think that reputation counts for something.
What does it count for? I'm still trying to figure that one out. Look at #2, and the other abusers that occupy spots in the top 20. I'd put it at a solid 50%.
Great site btw! I didn't know that existed. :-)
Thanks, I made steemocean, but it doesn't make money and I don't have time to promote it much. Maybe I'll make a video advert at some point for my videos ;)
Reputation mainly effects downvoting and censoring. Once your reputation goes below zero your posts are soft censored in Steemit.com. If you downvote someone who has a lower reputation than yours, then you can actually lower their reputation. So the highest account has the potential to become a tyrant and censor everyone if they have the resources to!
Can lower rep accounts drop higher rep accounts, or is he cock of the rock until someone overtakes him?
Lower rep can never drop higher rep accounts.
Lower rep accounts cannot lower higher rep accounts, no - so it basically means he is 'emperor' for now.
Wow, really, do we need a Hard Fork to change the reputation system? xD
It's up to website operators to decide what they use reputation for - some don't allow it to censor posts but ultimately that is part of the design of Steem, to mitigate spam.
@dan at one point artificially set berniesanders to -15 but then over time he recovered and some people started upvoting him to help him recover.
So we need to nuke steamcleaners with some whalevotes to make them the tyrant, or the next in line @traf ahem @trafalgar... :-). hmmmmm
I've seen Steemcleaners be tyrannical and cause problems unfairly. The entire premise of a reputation pyramid is in opposition to the principles of anarchy that Steem was allegedly built on.. Well, except it is 'anarcho capitalism' which itself is an oxymoron.
Yeah steemcleaners needs to get off my back
It's dumb that a large aggregate of lower rep accounts can't drop a higher rep account over time. Even a noble account at the top of the pyramid could get compromised or turn rogue. This should really get fixed at some point.
I think keeping him at zero income (locking him down with free downvotes) would be enough. He won't go down in rep, but won't go up. And before long, the rest of the field will surpass him, and then be able to crush him.
I did post about allowing lower accounts to affect the higher accounts a long time ago, but unsurprisingly the technocracy didn't like that so I got back in my cage. ;)
So, he's emperor, unless we can raise up somebody larger than him, to take him down. A weapon.
But how to ensure the weapon doesn't turn back on us once it takes out the current emperor?
I hope not, that sounds like a bad setup.