I like the Posh project because it is useful for promoting Hive and the recent change has increased the exposure of Hive post links on Twitter but reading this post and the previous one it is evident that there are many accounts that see posh as just a way to make money.
I don't know if this is technically an easy thing to do (I am not an expert on the technical side) but I have been thinking about possible changes:
- instead of grouping in the posh message under Hive posts all tweets related to that post maybe it would be better to put separate messages.
That way you can vote only the authors of tweets that receive interaction on Twitter (min of likes and min of retweets)
As it is now structured posh someone who creates a tweet that does not receive exposure on twitter earns HIVEs as someone who creates a tweet that receives a lot of likes because your upvote is divided among the users who shared the post on Twitter (I think I understand that to be the case) - The second change I thought of is to upvote only posh responses from those who have minimal interaction not only on Twitter but also on Hive.
Almost always those who have a post/comment ratio pending on the post side only have a money-making goal.
We changed it from this to the way it's now because we didn't want posts spammed with many poshtoken comments, it also doesn't distribute it equally but depending on how each tweet did. The shitty thing here is that people are like-trading with each other on twitter just to take more from those who don't attempt to fake their likes and retweets.
The latter is true and we will take a lot of things into account when we automate the process.
I just think we need to be a lot more stricter in the way we block people from the program when we see these things happening. It's not like they can complain about it either way and it's not like we're going to use it as a weapon to remove people who we don't like or any ulterior motives, the whole project is created from the ground up with hive rewards and pure community funding in an effort to bring more traffic to Hive and build more things on top of POSH to give it value for those putting in effort not just to share on twitter but to also grow their twitter in an attempt to give hive links and our user community a bigger presence there. It's a shame that some just think short term while taking from other more deserving users, then again still a lot of the same issues on hive in general so it can only improve from here on out I suppose and another good thing is that abusers more often than not will just sell the tokens at any price.