Do you be able to mention the name of these proposed community flag bot projects you are noting?
I ask that because I am working on something similar to that however characterizing it as a bot would not really give it justice. It's more of a communal flag account whereby people reecharge their right to up to a 100% flag in proportion to their delegated or donated SP via a flag console. We are concurrently working on ways to minimize the risk profile to delegators.
I know you weren't a fan of @steemflagrewards but we have already made a believer of at least one of the people who had doubted my intentions when we got into it in the chat room. (No hard feelings btw)
If I could make a believer out of you, I would say the sky is the limit as you seemed most closed to the concept of a community flag incentivization system. I'm not certain I understood the rationale of your doubts and would appreciate any clarity you may afford.
I have noted Steem possessing Ponzi-esque elements in previous comments and do not think accounts running the schemes are getting any weaker despite how much they cash out compared to those that believe in Steem for the long term who earn through honest and productive means.
You can keep doing the lone wolf flagging and pretend like organized flag alliances (or flag club in your words) have no utility but there may come a day yet where you realize that it will not be enough to repel the advances of our mutual enemies, the short sighted reward pool rapists.
Any effective project is going to need whale support, I recommend you start there. I mentioned this in the post and when you pitched the idea before as well.
I think I saw a post pitching flag-a-whale, yesterday, pulling that from memory, so it might not be the accurate name.
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Thanks for the advice. You're absolutely right. My plan is to have some form of a working demo when I pitch it to large stake holders who may be interested. I've tested the waters with a number of people on discord as well as the initial couple posts and there seems to be some interest. Think there could be demand if implemented properly.
Yep. You got it. Well, cat's out of the bag now. FAW is the project. It ain't shit right now but neither was SFR which people seem to be appreciate now (has plenty more work needed. I).
I put in a lot of time and if nothing else this will be an opportunity for me to learn some cool shit and make some abuse fighting friends along the way.
Also, I wanted to clarify that Flag-A-Whale is a bit of a misnomer. Just thought it was a clever name at the time because of abuse from a few notable whales. Of course, abuse occurs on all spectrums of SP holding and will be intended to flag any abuser no matter where they fall in the peking order. More than anything, it is intended to be deterrent against people trying to get junk posts to Trending. In theory, this would improve quality of content.