And what's to prevent the user from creating another account, delegating SP to it, and upvoting himself with it?
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And what's to prevent the user from creating another account, delegating SP to it, and upvoting himself with it?
Absolutely nothing, which is why I over and over again come out 100% against this idea. It's silly when you can create multiple accounts, delegate, or vote trade. It might stop the laziest or most technically dis-inclined abusers, which just shifts the "booty" to the more technically savvy, determined abusers. It seems worse than doing nothing. The big abusers don't self-vote, they vote trade in cartels like BookingTeam.com:
https://steemit.com/curation/@lexiconical/exposing-advertiser-circle-jerks-in-trending-reward-pool-rape-and-bookingteam-com
The only solution I see is removing flagging from using the same power as upvoting. There is too much financial disincentive not to flag things, and it's already bad enough there is a lot of social and retaliation disincentive as well.
Right you are.
They even talk about this in the whitepaper. My post inspired by this thread might be of interest to you.
https://steemit.com/steem/@kyle.anderson/subjective-proof-of-work-some-rational-comments-on-the-self-voting-trend
Thanks, I'll check it out.
It's a possible workaround but It's definitely inconvenient and moving the SP earned from posting account to voting account is limited by the 3 month power-down phase. Abuses would be as easy to detect as self vote and can eventually be counteracted with bots.
But delegation is instant.
Indeed. @transisto you don't need to power down to delegate. Delegation can be revoked, and it takes 7 days to complete.
https://steemit.com/faq.html#What_is_delegated_STEEM_Power
Good question.
Very good question...The better question is how do we grow the platform family:)
That's steemit.incs job.
right?
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I was agreeing with your sentiment about the responsibility of the platform growing.