The POB constitution is established in a fundamental rule:
"to have a brain"
I vote to amend this constitution. Even the United States constitution has added 27 amendments at present. These amendments did not come when everything was OK. They came when the nation had serious conflicts and was threatened to be torn apart.
While becoming a state senator, Abraham Lincoln gave the House Divided Speech in the Illinois state Capitol. He said at that time:
"A house divided against itself, cannot stand."
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.
I would like POB to include as many as possible. In order to do so it may be necessary to construct some amendments.
Before we begin let's take a meticulous look at history.
An elephant is not required if I can use the media to be admired.
Why pillage like a criminal when I can send a message subliminal?
Why conquer with depravity? I'll undermine the world with gravity.
I find a ruler's greatest flaw and find a little wisdom from each "faux pas".
I hope this history rhyme isn't a waste of time.
I propose the fist amendment to be:
"and use it"
Here Paul Simon reflects on the problem with Marion.
The boys got brains. He just don't use 'em that's all.
The second amendment
The second amendment should have something to do with operating the POB community account. Because of the great powers invested it would be better to distribute that power and responsibility to 3-5 active POB community members like POB 1,2,3,4,5.
The third amendment
The third amendment we should think about is the down vote amendment. We already have a down vote in Hive, do we really need a downvote in POB?
This is just something to chew on. It doesn't have to be this way, but everyone does have a voice here. This is my voice. This is what I have to say about the operation of proof of brain.
A constitution would be a good start.
The splitting of power is an interesting concept. More voting, more distribution, more fingers on more mouses... good idea.
Downvotes are tricky, they suck until the situation arises when you need to downvote. Gaming the system would be much easier without the treat of a downvote.
Thank you @allcapsonexero,
I think within such a short time POB grew to a great community with value to the blockchain. This is hard for anyone one community representative to keep up with. Yes, more clicks and more support to a larger audience and probably more versatile.
Downvotes are tricky and I'm not sure about that myself. I think POB could clear spam with the Hive downvote if or when the occasion comes.
The down vote, since this is a 2nd layer tribe, should be done away with and replaced with an account call such as @banthisaccount, and then a team put together to determine if the account should be blocked/muted on Proofofbrain.io.
Any account that is guilty of:
or any other cause that the community believes justifies muting/blocking an account from benefiting via curation and posting rewards.
I like this idea a lot @shadowmask.
would love something like that but by the time some serious crap happens they have racked up coinage that would have to be dealt with, dv's still would prolly have to be a thing but in a perfect world .....yeah it would be awesome there's no perfect system, some forms of checks and balances have to be in place
have a good one
axey
Didn't see this coming! A good idea though but what if the team becomes malicious and just wanna feast on their prey due to one reason of hate or the other? After all they must have been chosen to keep a check on;
all of this! Would there be a way of going back? Would the team be questioned too?
Down with downvotes. Downvotes destroyed Hive..... Or at least it should cost $1,000 USD to cast a downvote. As Jesus once said, let he who has not sinned cast the 1st Downvote.
Neither have I condemned you. Go now and leave your life of downvoting :D
Why don't you go to BLURT? It could be a heaven for you. No DV's there !
If somehow majority will decide to eliminate downvotes on POB - it will be so.
This will be also a 100% reason for me to leave POB tribe immediately. ( as a supporter and investor)
Not only I would dump all my tokens on the market, but perhaps POB soon will get new, the biggest abuser on this tribe.
Why not? What will you do for him? No downvotes there! How you punish him?
Mute? ha ha ha
Muting takes away rewards, but not stops person posting, commenting on the tribe.
After all, you will have to mute hundreds of new accounts every day - new FREE account tickets can be produced every day.
Think twice before you do this your "third amendment".
Thank you for your comment and clear stance on this issue. I appreciate your view on this issue and I really did want to hear from you specifically.
I proposed a question of a POB community without a downvote. And you explained your stance for me and others here to understand.
Thank you for sharing your voice. I believe your voice here is just as powerful as your stake.
I think we basically have the same question:
I agree that we all need to think twice about the third ammendment. I wrote it as a question because I really don't know the best way to police and protect the community.
If downvote is the only way then do you think there should be guidlines of what situation a user should express their right to downvote on Proof of Brain?
I saw yesterday and extremely good explanation of DV "problem" to someone. I'm myself not so good in putting things together so well and logical, as AZ did. But... I sign below EVERY SINGLE WORD in his recent comment:
Thanks again for keeping me informed. I'm beginning to see both sides here. The reward pool can be abused through upvoting just as much or more than it would be through downvoting.
I see a yin and yang play here. As one goes one way the other corrects.
My number 3 ammendment doesn't look feasible in this community.
I read some of the posts about voting from a couple days ago and it got my head spinning.
I don't like when only a few people are getting most of the rewards and I also don't think the best way to communicate to them is through a downvote. They are community members who contribute and make opportunities for others to engage.
It would be best to come to an agreement with them how to use the reward pool. They seem to have the same objective in the end to grow and share rewards equally.
Peace
Thought the only reason for a user to downvote any content was if the content is plagiarized! Is there more to downvoting than this(plagiarism)?
This is the exact topic od discussion in community. Should downvotes be given for abuse of the reward pool? Should downvotes be given for spam? Who should give the downvotes and should we be responsible before the community for any downvote given?
Spam ain't good so in my opinion I think if a content contains spam then the downvote is worth it.
Everyone has his or her powers to either upvote or downvote a post. When it comes to downvoting a post, I think a particular reason should be given by the user who downvoted the post in the comment section so everyone could know the reason that triggered the post to be downvoted.
Don't you think if this is amended, there would be more plagiarized contents in the community?