When I read what happened to Marly my heart dropped because i know how good a person she is and helps other people and for someone to do something like this just makes me want to hit the person with a steel chair on the face!!!
I know we are decentralized and everything and that Steemit Inc has not really want to do anything because they want the community to self govern and weed out the bad apples but there must be a consensus board or a moderating team that can take out accounts that are like this.
Steemcleaners and Patrice do a good job of doing this maybe revoking transfers is a good way of combating these.
Sure the scammer can just keep creating an account but it better than nothing being done and that scammers can do this without any repurcussions.
It is as if we go through a gold rush, mine some gold and put it on our camp and since someone saw that we went to the mine or did something else they walk in help themselves to the gold and quiet leave and encash it in the bank and the tellers know it is not theirs but process it anyway because they don't have the power to stop a transaction nor can call the sheriff, even if a sheriff arrives can do anything and the thief will just stroll out and wait for another victim.
haha, tell us what you really think Mav! :D
I'm hoping that the suggestion in the post is something to work on, and a witness has replied to the post saying he's game for a challenge. As you say, Steemit inc might continue with the hands-off approach, and so it's up to 'us' to come up with a solution.
cheers.
I have been thinking all night about a possible solution to this predicament and with my limited knowledge it does point to a consensus mechanism that we will need like Steemcleaners having more power in bringing accounts that scam to negative levels quickly and once that is done should have transfer mechanism turned off. (although I did think how it would affect accounts like Bernie)
We really cannot stand idly by anymore.
Hoping for a solution to appear - it's whitehat theft I guess, with a promise to return the funds.