RE: BEWARE - I'm FIGHTING Spam In My Comment Section From Now On
I appreciate your willingness to at least try to clean up "your corner" of Steemit. I do hope that it doesn't just become a cost against your wellbeing in using your voting power as a down flag rather than as an up, but at the same time, it seems that unless there gets to be some way of disciplining "bad" behavior, nothing much will change. The macro issue seems to be "how to encourage / enforce socially BENEFICIAL behaviors in a decentralized system?" I've chosen to attempt to encourage "beneficial behaviors" from a tack of spiritual formation / character development and feel its the part I can play, but feel like if my "stick" were sized a bit differently, I likely would use it more akin to your description to try to reshape how people functioned from an external stimulus as well. (I fear my paltry .03 doesn't do a whole lot in sending much of a message.)
I'm really curious to see what your tack may produce, because I cannot help but think it will in truth both require "interior boundary setting" (the arena I'm trying to encourage) AS WELL as external reinforcement to begin to alter the course of this big ole' Steemit ship.
I wish you nothing but the best in your efforts as I am certain that if you and others (who happen to have the kind of clout that may actually be felt... something about "when in doubt, get a bigger hammer" comes to mind) were to begin to create a better expectation for normalized behavior, we will ALL benefit tremendously.
(Incidentally... I was watching the video you are referencing just last night, but only got half-way through... you'll see me on that comment section after I've wrapped up... it is an absolute gem, with so much worth thinking through! Jonathan Pageau is one smart / insightful cookie.)
I don't have much power right now but part of my effort involves reaching out to spammers who I assume are actually people and telling them that I'll sign them up for my UBI if they stop spamming. Unfortunately without a team of people who speak the major languages of steemit I have quite a language barrier to overcome in many instances, google translate doesn't seem to work well at all for quite a few of the more popular languages on steemit. That and my SP is tiny and I have to compete with bid bots for delegations, rofl.
Sounds like quite the task before you. I really like the idea of trying to encourage them to go onto UBI - Are you working through something like Mannabase for that? Are you finding any willing to take you up on the offer?
I asked gtg about it and he said the only way it'd be feasible here is to do it on the blockchain as a feature of our coin, which makes sense and I think has been proposed by some others who want steem to be on the forefront of UBI. Personally I just have a list of autovoted persons for now, I asked mahdiyari of steemauto if he could implement something that would give a balanced amount of VP per day to everyone on a list and he said he could work on that, which I was extremely grateful for and will use immediately once it's out.
I looked into manna, I can see why they would want everyone's address to make sure people aren't UBI farming with multi-accounts, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a program that seems to have such an emphasis on a referral program (which skews the income to the spammiest people or those with already large social network reach, which I don't think is what a UBI should really aim for) and physical location data gathering, among some other things that make me go hmmmm. There are some other UBI coin projects out there and I should probably research them heavily, I do not like shilling coins or icos and would feel terrible if anyone got their security compromised etc. on one of my recommendations through a leaky wallet or something.
Yeah, there have been some, but my SP isn't attractive enough to make a lot of them reconsider their actions, or maybe they don't understand what I'm trying to say.