In the framework of psychology, blame, shame and condemnation alike serve the purpose of expressing the level of disagreability one has for another's actions or inactions. In the context of voteselling, and even worse, vote buying if you don't condemn it, it's either excused, or marginalized, or outright endorsed by silence or even worse by the approval and encouragement of others and as it gathers socital approval the worse and worse the practice will become. What will become of this place as this practice gains acceptance?
Many marginalized the issue or outright shifted the blame to "the code" yet this practice only happened and continues so because people with stake haven't the incentive of checking it, and thus making such abuse not profitable and therefore a fruitless or outright painful endeavor. Why do people without stake lack the incentive to check it? Because people have, for as long as steem has been around, considered that code ought to deem what is blame worthy, what is shame worthy and what's outright condemnable. It's a sad state when people aren't capable of discerning such things for themselves and it's a sadder thing that so many lack the moral witherall that they would rather coddle those who beg for code to ordain morality instead of dismissing them as nonsensical and lacking the moral fortitude and integrity and declaring that they themselves are responsible for recognizing what is good, what isn't or what is neither. So, for me, someone without the stake to actually flag such abuse, the only way out of this quagmire is to voice my complete disapproval of it or outright condemn such practice and signal to others that there's a response to abuse that doesn't require code changes, a response from those whom haven't the stake, so that maybe, no matter how insurmountable it may seem, others who have stake join in. On the opposite spectrum are those who have sung the same nonsense and have displayed a lack of integrity and do so either because they think nothing of community or of the future, regardless of what they say counter to that, or simply are disingenuous so that some abusive users will reward their support of such condemnable behavior. I find it despicable either way.
I suspect you’re dead on. The masses often ruin their own caves by polluting it. I think that has happened.
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We can’t really expect human nature to change?
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I agree people are sitting on their hands but I also agree most people are good!
I think the problem extends from the ability to generate income from the bidbots and not necessarily from the people using the services. Simple solution is promotion should not be allowed with a gamble of generating an income but then I ask how do we police this situation? I have seen Mrs. Sanders and others make an attempt but without being able to generate an ROI there is no whale support making it a very uneven playing field.
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