The following is straight from The Steem White Paper:
"The use of negative-voting to keep people from abusing the system leverages the crab mentality that many people have when it is perceived that one individual is profiting at the expense of everyone else. While crab mentality normally refers to short-sighted people keeping good people down, it is also what allows good people to keep bad people down. The only “problem” with crab mentality is when people wrongly believe someone is profiting at everyone else's expense.
The Story of the Crab Bucket
A man was walking along the beach and saw another man fishing in the surf with a bait bucket beside him. As he drew closer, he saw that the bait bucket had no lid and had live crabs inside.
"Why don't you cover your bait bucket so the crabs won't escape?", he said.
"You don't understand.", the man replied, "If there is one crab in the bucket it would surely crawl out very quickly. However, when there are many crabs in the bucket, if one tries to crawl up the side, the others grab hold of it and pull it back down so that it will share the same fate as the rest of them."
So it is with people. If one tries to do something different, get better grades, improve herself, escape her environment, or dream big dreams, other people will try to drag her back down to share their fate.
Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal. Even those who are attempting to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive mining done via mining pools. All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its currency.
The goal of building a community currency is to get more “crabs in the bucket”. Going to extreme measures to eliminate all abuse is like attempting to put a lid on the bucket to prevent a few crabs from escaping and comes at the expense of making it harder to add new crabs to the bucket. It is sufficient to make the walls slippery and give the other crabs sufficient power to prevent others from escaping."
Pages 17 and 18 of The Steem Whitepaper.
Enjoy figuring things out and why we have the ultra rich (minority) where they are and why the rest of us just can't seem to get out of that damn bucket!
Sleep on it, think about it, before you go buy into some scheme devised by the ultra rich!
The truth has been spelled out right in front of our noses here and presented in a way that anyone can twist it around to use as an excuse for their pulling other people down back into the bucket!
As I say:
"Technology changes, human nature doesn't"
Cheers.
Poke holes in the bucket 😆
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I've seen some people say flagging is 'abuse', but it's just a form of curation. We should use it when we consider it appropriate.
You know, I've never been a fan of any type of centralized body that judges others.
Hence why I never really was a fan of all those groups that make judgement calls upon what is or isn't "quality as per their opinions".
However, when looking at all the little vigilante groups popping up who claim that their sh#1 doesn't stink and who are out there doing sh#t without actually looking into anything at all or curating as per the definition of curation, then man, I swear, it seems like we need a police force to police the police force and then another internal body to ensure that that police force is doing its job right too.
Damn, looks like humans have managed to make a real world scenario here too!
Well if nobody does anything then the abuse will just get worse. Those who flag it risk retaliation, so incentives can help. I do it because I believe in what Steem can be and I d fully like to see people exploit it whilst adding no value and giving nothing back. It's going to be interesting to see if Steem can scale up without turning to sh*t
Well... that's interesting that this is in the whitepaper. Damn crabs.
i always cringe when i hear that story! because it's sadly true!
but - i try to surround myself with people who support, encourage, and PUSH me out of the bucket! hehehehe
i hope that mentality can shift Jack! i really hope so :)