Hey hey hey! Gettin' flagged for no reason.
I've seen children on the playground enforce better etiquette than this. You done fucked up, Steem. You let the bully rule the playground unchallenged. Now he thinks he gets to do whatever he wants with impunity. You actively allow a big stakeholder to devalue the platform and deter investors from entering the space.
This is why flags exist. The level of meager resistance to this behavior is downright embarrassing. Every vote Beanie Baby has cast over the last six months should have been nullified by the community out of simple common sense. The guy straight up controls an account called @rewardpoolrape and has used it to that effect.
Oh, but if he's not going to do anything, then I'm not going to do anything.
And so on and so forth and no one does anything.
But I'm not here to be a hypocrite, because where was my voice before I started getting flagged? Same place everyone else's was: not giving a fuck.
Meanwhile, constant talks of giving the big stake holders even more power are constantly taking place. Hey! Let's create a separate pool for flagging! Let's funnel 10% inflation to projects that the stakeholders choose! Let's increase curation rewards! Let's go back to logarithmic rewards!
It's alarming that very few people see these power grabs for what they are. If any of them actually happen, I will seriously have to consider selling some of my stake into Ethereum, as it's not going to stop there. The slippy slope of strong-arming Steem inflation isn't going to stop on a dime.
Not for no reason.
Alright so this all started when account @tushy attacked account @mitrado in @drugwars. I wiped out the @tushy account and said something like, "you can stop attacking @mitrado now, thanks".
OOPS
It was @themarkymark's alt account. That escalated in to a situation where all of my accounts have been under constant attack for a while now. Seriously the number of hours spent on attacking my @drugwars accounts is pretty comical.
Defending 5 @drugwars accounts 8 times a day is pretty tedious. The game is boring enough as it is. What a waste of life. So I made my accounts public and employed a few characters that hate @berniesanders. They are micromanaging my accounts and sending out some not so savory messages.
On that note, has anyone ever been in the same Discord with @themarkymarky and @berniesanders? If they aren't the same person they communicate pretty much every day. This seems like it should be a fairly easy thing to verify.
In direct messages with @themarkymark on Discord he made sure to tell me three times that he wasn't @berniesanders when I wasn't even accusing him. He even brought it up last night on MSP Waves Broadcast.
This deflection was pretty weird as well. Who says they have zero thoughts about a person that they talk to everyday? Refuses to acknowledge @berniesanders as a person while denies being them, constantly unsolicited.
In @drugwars they are active at the same times. They log out around 8 PM PST and become active again between 4-7 AM. Probably live on the East Coast.
Sometimes @ngc will scout and @themarkymark will follow up with an attack. This happens all the time actually. And messages from @ngc and @themarkymark seem interchangeable. @ngc will mention things from direct message with Marky in Discord... things like that.
So either they are pretty much in constant communication or they have access to each other's accounts or they are just the same person. In my opinion, they have completely different personalities and @drugwars playing styles, so if they were the same person they go to great lengths to hide it or have full-on multiple personality disorder (which seems stupidly unlikely).
Their attitude toward money is the same. Money is no object and wealth is flaunted at the folks who have less.
Again, they are both huge personalities on Steem and they are constantly in cahoots with each other. It should be very easy to put this thing to rest. Can anyone verify they are two separate people?
All of this points to the same thing:
Decentralized Sybil-Attack Resistant Reputations
I've talked about this before. Reputation means nothing if you can just make a new account and farm rep on it instantly. I've said this a few times before but I suppose I should take it more seriously.
rant over
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You are a fuckin quickdraw I tell you what.
I actually use the site... It's an oddity on Steem.
Weirdo.
Now that you made this post they will rearrange the situation as if you were the whiny butthurt kid. ;)
Yeah, this is about as whiny and butthurt as I get.
It will be a while before the next outburst.
I can tell you who's going to be the whiny butthurt one when a game comes to Steem and the "win" can't be bought. @drugwars is a great example of what's to come. Massive value transference looms on the horizon. The fools and the ninja-miners will be quite easily separated from their stake holdings as time ticks on.
Weirdly enough... that kind of decentralization likely amounts to those accounts who lost a lot of their coins still maintaining a higher dollar value. Crypto is so weird.
You know what, sybil attacks are effectively nullified by a logarithmic curve since it encourages stake concentration / discourages stake splitting and the Whale Experiment demonstrates that flagging can be used to bring in investors by nullifying Whale Votes and increasing everyone else's votes.
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I would say logarithmic curve encourages Sybil Attack and stake splitting. How could it possibly do the opposite?
Instead of upvoting one post for $100, ten posts will be upvoted for $10. Anyone who doesn't pivot to the new system is the one who loses money. Guess what? That's not going to be the big stake holders.
The rules can't be changed to force inflation away from the whales because the whales control the changes. In general, when you make the rules more complicated they'll be the ones to game the system while everyone that doesn't adapt will be the ones who lose money.
How do you Reason that it encourages Stake Splitting?
It clearly, with any doubt encourages Stake Concentration and Clearly, without any doubt, at all, discourages Stake Splitting.
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Not sure why you're trying to bring this up @edicted, I've watched the same people do this type of thing since I got here. I doubt it will change.
Steem was meant to be a "social" network with "proof of brain", neither of which seem to be true.
I wouldn't count its demise just yet, but it looks like steems "original sin" keeps coming back to haunt it at every turn.
Even now, the same attitude prevails with any criticism or suggestions being shut down. Those with the steem power to make changes don't seem to have the appetite for it.
I will hold onto some steem power, just in case I am wrong, but there isn't enough for me to have serious confidence to make a substantial investment.
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I was here before getting flagged. Thanks for your insights.
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Marky's got it backwards. Everybody knows Bernadette is hot for the Geekthrob!
