The problem is, it is trivially easy for 1 person to create 100's even 1000's of accounts. This is called a sybil attack. rewards must be tied to some measure that would require a great deal of money to exploit and would therefor cost more to attack then any benefit you'd hope to receive. The current SteemPower weighting for rewards accomplishes this.
I believe the solution is, we need more small whales and dolphins and this will simply take some time. We will get there. With a larger userbase of vested/powered voters more of the quality material will be found and rewarded. Currently A post with 100+ votes is more likelihood to be noticed by these players but the numbers of players are simply limited.
Yes. Sybil is the biggest problem.
@complexring i agree with you 100% percent,sibil is the biggest problem for us,steemit and our community.
It is fairly easy to make a shitton of accounts, there should be some way to prevent it.
Making fake facebook account is easy,so it is easy to make fake account here too.
We need to stop it,i hope we can erase all type of "sybil" people.
It is all about,if we can fight hard enough.
A sophisticated user can create, approximately, 2-3 accounts per day for no more than 60 dollars for a month, a la mining.
@hrottie, this is indeed an issue, I imagine. Not entirely sure how one would stop it, especially since fake accounts would be created via mining and I don't know if IP address is info that the network receives. I would think that it would, but maybe internals don't save it or provide a mechanism to do so ... may not be possible without some significant refactoring of code.
Even then, IP spoofing is still possible at many different levels.
Not even an IP checker will fix it, because almost no one is on a static IP. However checking IP addresses, machine names and Mac addresses combined with Site cookies will drastically reduce fake accounts.
Yes but i think that is not the main problem.
If we have not fair people over here, with big account,they may constantly upvote new , fresh fake accounts and take out profit's from them.
Im looking for some way to fight this,any idea @complexring or anybody else?
I think only IP checker can win.
I hear you on this one. I feel like right now new people like me will get pulled by see 300 -900 dollars per post but the reality is 3 to 10 dollars. So as you said the more small whale and dolphins we have the faster steemit will grow.
I think we need a way to confirm a user. You should only be able to have one account. I'm not sure how this would be possible, but it would help prevent spam accounts.
I can follow both of your arguments and I guess time will show how things will turn out to be. very interesting though to read both of your opinions. Thank you for sharing!