Great points listed here. And I too only have 1 posting account on HIVE, this one, and my alt accounts are named the same name just with a tag at the end.
For me, alt accounts are mostly there for security, technical and yea, fun reasons. But your point does stand. I wouldn't be so much worried about 1 person making 10 accounts to sway/influence, I would be more worried about a crew of 10 people making a few hundred accounts to swap opinion. That's when it gets scary.
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I'm also not that concerned about an individual having multiple accounts. I'm convinced anyway that there are always only a few criminals and most people stick to rules or if not, they don't do much harm. The scenario you describe is also possible, of course. When things like this happen, that a few exert influence on a great many people, I make a point of not believing certain news and messages or think they smell bad. I am often sceptical and do not immediately believe everything that the trend picks up or spreads, especially when little seems allowed outside the trend.
People are not stupid, unfortunately they are often too afraid to go against a trend or to seek their interest elsewhere because they don't want to be marginalised. Which is also understandable.
What do you mean by technical or security reasons for the other accounts?
I wanted to see if I could spin up a dlux.io node. Dlux is a sidechain off of HIVE, and uses HIVE for authentication. In order to spin up a node, I had to have a HIVE user account associated with it. For security reasons, I didn't want to put my main account keys (@amphlux) on the server in case it got compromised. So I made an account, @amphlux.dlux that I could then use its keys to create the node.
A few known users around hive do this. You will see a lot of users with something like @username.leo or something similar, for the account they use on LEO. Its a way of spreading out keys/wealth in a more secured way.
Ah, all right, thank you for the explanation.
no problem!
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