RE: we-the-people - Month #1 (12/05/2020-12/06/2020)

[jaki01]

I don't say your idea to let 'people' (= accounts?) decide would be bad ... but couldn't I simply increase my influence by creating lots of small accounts which were all voting in your dpoll surveys and receiving rewards from you?

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[we-the-people]

every month 50% of the profits deriving from the writing of the blocks (excluding the maintenance costs of the server, today $ 30/month) will be equally distributed (one vote, one share) among all those who have kept their vote for the whole month (to avoid scrounge an activity check on users can be applied)

Now we have only 52 votes, and no profits, so the problem is not in place, but, as stated in our post, we will implement some activity check.

If you want, in Hive, you can have many accounts, is not our choice, is a fact.
We think that if you are able to manage many accounts, write many post for each account, do curation, and so on, is an implicit fact that you make value for Hive more than who have only one account, so, for us is ok.
To avoid many small fake accounts we will discuss with a poll how to check your Proof of Activity; can be every account must have a minimum of post per month and/or a minimum of votes or something more complex.

The focus, for us, is to foster activity because we think that we have to balance the power of great stakers with the power of little accounts that do really make value producing posts, because if Hive have only curators and no one that write, will be, in the long run, an empty place with no value at all.

[fbslo]

I can write a bot that will create accounts, vote, write random posts, comments, transfers... in few days/weeks. And I'm far from being best dev here. This is the reason why 1 account 1 vote is not best way on Hive.

Currently, there are botnets with over 100k accounts and less than 10k active Hive accounts.

[we-the-people]

Currently, there are botnets with over 100k accounts and less than 10k active Hive accounts.

If they are not active, is not the right example.

Anyway, if you are able to write random posts with a great content and no plagiarism, completely automated, I think there is no way to stop you.
With or without we-the-people and his redistribution policy, you will be a whale in a while!

[fbslo]

Botnets are not active because there is no reason for them to be active. They have almost no HP.

There is a difference between great content and low-quality content (like most posts on hive). How to separate normal users posting low quality vs bot posting low quality.

[jaki01]

Thanks for your reply!

In my case several accounts, for example my wife, @kobold-djawa, use @jaki01 as proxy. In your model that would be disadvantageous, right?

[we-the-people]

We think that set a proxy for witness voting is not a good thing, so, yes, if we see only an account we send only to this account and vote only posts from this account.