RE: [Proposal] A New Efficient Way to Cope with Abusers

[clayop]

I might made unclear explanations, but you need to pay attention to mods. Mods have moderation power that can remove abusers from the village and it's an one-time event. If some mods are allowing abusers, then users downvote the mods(village) due to disagreement on the mods' policy. This is an one-time event, similar to witness vote. Surely users can upvote villages to support and protect villages from abusive downvotes.

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[sigmajin]

"Mods have moderation power that can remove abusers from the village"

so how will being removed from a villiage effect the abuser. How will it stop him from abuse. He can just post in another villiage , or create his own. Or, more likely, join in a villiage in the first place that he knows will tolerate abuse.

AORN, most of the poeple with a lot of SP aren't even willing to downvote individual abusersl. In fact many of them are participating in the abuse, supporting the abuse, or selling their vote to someone who does one or the other.

Adding collateral damage (that is to say, making it so their downvote hurts the payouts of innocent villiage posters as well as the abusers) to the equation isn't going to make them more willing to do so. In fact, it I suspect it will make them less so.

What a system like this would do is make sure that you had to be a member of a lucrative village in order to get significant payouts. And the most lucrative villages are going to be the ones supported by the same whales who support these self upvoting schemes in the first place.

What is comes down to is precisely what i said before. Right now the problem is that some whales flat out support abuse, and others do nothing, but very few are fighting it.

the same whales that now support abuse will continue to do so regardless of what 'villiage' it occurs in.

the same whales who elect to do nothing now to combat abusive individuals will continue to do nothing to combat abusive villages.

the real effects something like this would have are:

1. It will obfuscate payouts to abusers by having the payouts first go to villiages.
2. It will protect abusers by forcing users to downvote entire villiages, rahter than just the abuser himself.
3. It will allow abusers supported by whales to form conglomerates to take the entire reward pool.

[clayop]

There will be well-managed villages using whitelist and blacklist. They still can be rewarded.