@charles1 - You've touched on one of my big concerns about Steemit. I love the whole concept behind the platform but something must be done to corral the scammers.
My idea for solving the problem should be fairly straightforward to implement. Steemit already has a system whereby users can upvote witnesses. Why not a similar mechanism for ostracizing bad actors?
Here's how it could work ---
Every user gets a single strike that they could apply to, or remove from any other user, at any time. Strikes would be tallied real-time so users would be able to monitor how the community is feeling about them, and hopefully, correct themselves. Offenders with the greatest number of strikes would suffer consequences such as:
- being blocked from posting
- having posts hidden
- losing reputation
- getting shut down
Such a self-policing system could stop the scams while boosting overall content quality. The job of moderating would be made a lot easier too.
Hopefully, this gets read by one of the developers.
Good tips indee, thanks for sharing
This sounds interesting and has potential. However, what about a scammer who opens 1000 accounts and uses all strikes against you? Obviously, we would need some sort of weighting, like downvotes. But I do like the idea of a single strike per account.