What do you think of designating a portion of the inflation to abuse mitigation similar to how witness pay and sp interest is paid?
The witnesses can decide how much, and to whom, should be paid out from the pool that should be allowed to build.
In this way all users of the platform share in the costs of abuse mitigation and not just the active authors as happens when upvotes are used to pay wages for work other than posting.
I would suggest some kind of white list for the 20 second comment rule, or maybe dropping it to 15 seconds.
Eliminating it will result in a spam attack from hell, imo.
Imagine how much more grumpy cat could selfvote.
And can we bring back the 4 post soft limit?
Bad actors have already circumvented this in the past with multiple accounts. Many of those accounts using SP delegated from the faucet.
Ouch, maybe we should bring back the n2 and teach the minnows to dogpile abusers?
Maybe with a sigmoid function that keeps the whales from sucking it all up.
Having it as part of inflation is one option (and similar to "workers" from other coins like BTS) and I think it could be a good idea.
This is only true if the bandwidth algorithm remains broken. Imagine a newbie who spams 1000 comments a day. They can either do it once every 20 seconds, or they can do it all in one go: but then they are bandwidth limited and have to wait until the next day. End of the day, same total spam amount.
I advocated for removal of this, but I wouldn't mind bringing a variant back in if it were somehow made intuitive.
I wasn't in favor of the 4 post limit. That was a little restrictive. It would be nice to see some variant that would stop the spam bot posters without having to flag them. As it is now, I'm not sure if I've stopped them or if they've just moved on to multiple accounts to do their spamming.
Ok, good to know.
Thanks for all your work.