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- self-votes aren't abuse!
I have answered question in this way since it was asked in a very limited fashion.
The problem is far more complicated than it is covered by this poll. In my opinion, current scenario, where individuals/whales decide what percentage of self-voting is fine, and then down-votes are being introduced, is completely wrong way of doing things.
Self-voting should either be completely, 100% acceptable thing, no limits, or should be banned completely, where you don't have an option to upvote yourself, and you can only upvote other posts.
- Self-voting is allowed.
Whether you've earned your STEEM solely on this platform, or bought it with your fiat, those are your earnings either way, and you reserve all rights to use them as you want. If self-voting is already allowed as option, then no one has the right to ''punish'' you for using an available option and managing your earnings the way you want.
- Steemit users cannot cast self-vote (they don't have an upvote button in their own posts).
This would be an elegant solution for ''abuse'' of the big whales small users are complaining about. It would have to be coupled with KYC process of registering an STEEM account, so that one person could only have one account, so multiple account self-voting could be avoided as well. Maybe then we would be able to see shit posters filtering themselves out of here, and people really competing for upvotes with somewhat good content.
These are just my two cents, and of course, I'm fully aware of other issues here on platform, such as votes buying, etc.
I disagree that we should either 100% allow self-voting or remove it completely but I foresee that there is possibly no solution to this "issue" because those who want to game the system will game it no matter what.
Even with KYC those who want to self-vote could simply create alt accounts and still self-vote as much as they want.
Every system that has ever been made by a human can be gamed by a human. You cannot possibly prevent it 100%. But you can make it more difficult, and by doing so, decrease the probability/percentage of such events.
Just because you can always think of ways how a certain system can be gamed, that doesn't mean we should stop trying to improve things, and just sink into the nihilism that nothing makes sense anyway.
But of course, I'm not that stupid to actually believe that STEEM ecosystem is about quality, fair play and growth.
Well said! I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I think that this system will always stay as is because Stinc obviously has no intention in fighting self-voting.
Self votes should not be allowed
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