I would personally like to see an alternate method used to calculate curation rewards. Something more complex
I know you would, and so would I... however. Machine will never beat the human greed instinct.
We can keep writing complex algorithms to try and automate the prevention of abuse and human greed. However, artificial intelligence systems can only do so much.
This is a social media platform, with humans participating... At some point (especially now) we need to identify what is socially accepted and what isn't.
Steemit/steem is still in BETA mode. The added layers of defense are only added layers but not fully defensive. :)
For this particular topic discussion, the general point has been made. Let's work with what we have at the moment.
(Which means, let's all use human power to decide what is good and what's not, and upvote or flag accordingly)
I do appreciate your comment...
Quickly: To me, it's not necessarily trying to "beat" human greed, but to Deter. If someone has to spend a significant amount of effort up-front to create an algorithm to "beat the Steemit defense", there are going to be fewer occurrences, and they will be easier to identify and manage.
Anyway, I'll leave this discussion for another post.
Agreed!