Reputation as a Steemit metric is now based on the total weight of upvotes. When Reputation can be bought, it doesn't quite reflect the trustworthiness of an account. When selling business services on Steem to be paid in the platform's currency, there should maybe be a different "stamp of legitimacy" or "certificate of trust", perhaps based on witness consensus?
On topic: this is shameful and I hope @zeartul will make amends with the victims and return their money.
Genius Idea --> "maybe be a different "stamp of legitimacy" or "certificate of trust".
@fitzgibbon & @dexterslab
I wrote about a method to establish "stamp of legitimacy" here : https://steemit.com/witness-category/@bobinson/2a9njn-need-for-establishing-identify-of-witnesses-discussion-and-proposal
may not be appealing or welcomed by everyone but some sort of "circle of trust" must be implemented. Even with witnesses, the status or identity is not really known.
Nice. Am glad you gave this wonderful feedback. You making some point in what you've said, but I wasn't refering to the reputation of @kingscrown when I said he is trustworthy, I was refering to my relationship with him here on steemit. Only accept information from people who youve followed for some amount of time and have found them to be trustworthy, based on what they post, people's comment towards them, how much they keep to their word,etc.
Anywaiz thanks for the feedback, it's well appreciated
Ì'm not referrring to @kingscrown's reputation, but to @zeartul's. He's got 69 reputation points, which is pretty high, but it turns out he shouldn't be trusted.
Okay I get now. Very true. His rep was deceptive. I think steemit has to look for a way of curbing this menace. All the best