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RE: [Warning] Black Hat Attacks from Steem Whales have been Promised!? [Part I]
An inevitable problem from the beginning here on Steemit, unless they start changing things via forks, and preferably before we are freed from beta.
Hell, the other day, some guy dropped over $5,000,000 n Steem, and if that guy wanted to, he could manipulate the shit out of Steemit if he wanted to.
I foresee, if nothing is fixed, that a super rich Robin Hood of sorts will one day join the ranks of Steemit, and will up-vote all the shit content he sees, driving all the shit to the top... which is really going to be a fun spectacle to watch.
I'd hope that the Robin Hood of sorts 'doesn't' up-vote crappy content. ;c)
Simply behaving differently from the King-makers would suffice.
Ha ha, what I meant, is that with pay-to-win systems... manipulation is an easy task.
That is exactly my fear now. I've said this from Day One - What if the Alexa Ranking is fake? What if it is driven by the relentless churning of the big guys? Instead of good posts rising to the top of search - do we have things like videos with no text? I have been keeping the blinders on for this answer so far.
If crap content is what makes this place rank - we don't need the black hats to arrive. Steemit will implode all on its own as the outside world arrives to see garbage. I really hope that is not true and that is why I stay here and try.