Really god job @themarkymark :) but a question... It is technical possible to remove accounts from steem? Or the remove means to flag, blacklist, etc..?
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Really god job @themarkymark :) but a question... It is technical possible to remove accounts from steem? Or the remove means to flag, blacklist, etc..?
No, there is no current system in place to disable/remove accounts. An account can choose to make their stake non-voting, which takes 30 days to activate but that's it. This was put in place to give Steemit Inc a way to enter into an irreversible contract on the blockchain it would not vote with their stake. Any account can choose to use this feature but it cannot be reversed once executed.
Outside of that, there is no way to kill an account with the current blockchain rules outside of countering their votes with flags.
Doing so would change the game dramatically and would likely result in a lot of users leaving the platform if their investment could be nuked, even if they were not a bad actor, just the fact it was possible is enough to scare off a lot of people.
If you think about the logistics it is very disturbing. I would assume you would use witnesses to mediate this type of thing, there is one user that significantly controls who is in the top 50 much less top 20. Absolute control is down to a handful of powerful votes. This creates a system where very few people can put a lot of pressure on key people to influence this type of decision. If you leave it up to the users, how do you determine a pass/fail? It cannot be on 50% or even 70%, out of the 1M+ accounts only 50K or so are really active.
If someone can't nuke someone else's account then how would you explain this quote from someone named dreemit to me a couple weeks back: If she wanted to, if she was the type of person you are making her out to be, she could flag your account to zero. It's not the first time someone suggested such a thing. I didn't agree with a couple other people when I first came to the site on a topic and they both told me if I replied back again I'd be flagged to zero.
I was having a conversation the other day with someone about the opinion of the SEC Chairman on crypto currency, his opinion was that it's a mistake to think that tokens don't have value and that when used/exchanged it should be treated the same as a cash transaction and that crypto's/tokens fall under the same regulatory regulations of state and federal banking laws, which means that anybody striking someone's wallet down to zero over not liking a comment is against the law, their wallet is as protected as any bank account someone may hold. I would assume that doing so out of fraud and abuse would be different but he didn't hit on that subject. You can read his whole testimony on crypto currencies here:
https://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/testimony-virtual-currencies-oversight-role-us-securities-and-exchange-commission
Nobody can remove any STEEM/SBD in your balance (or unclaimed post rewards), except for you.
However, someone with a lot of SP could remove the pending rewards on all your posts/comments less than 7 days old.
"Flagging to zero" means flagging an account until their rep is (0) or (-1).
When your rep is that low you posts and comments look greyed out, but they are not invisible.
I suppose the rep never recovers?
not without votes
Steemit Inc actually hasn't revoked their voting ability, despite them being able to.
Also, accounts can effectively be destroyed, if enough witnesses ignore transactions by a certain user. It would also help if a lot of P2P nodes discard those transactions too.
Well.. think I got it, anyway like everywhere there always some Injustice and we have to manage them the best way we can.
Let's Steem On and chillout!
It's probably for the best that accounts can't be deleted - that could risk censorship. I mean, if accounts get knocked down to .1 SP they might as well not exist anyway when it comes to downvoting.