RE: Symbiont{s} | Anti-Abuse Initiative | Steem Sentinels
Dear @symbionts
Most of you are probably aware of the methodical and systematic abuses that are happening on the chain right now by former witnesses and several members of the community.
This is very unfortunate and very true. People who were supposed to protect STEEM and it's users from decentralization were the ones failing our trust and now they are "milking" steem, ensuring that our investments here will be worthless. They want to hurt Justin and he surely may lose some money. However many others (small users) will lose so much more :/
However, we believe that is it useless at this point to discuss such things, and we prefer to focus on areas where we think we can make a difference.
Very mature approach. I like it.
ps.
I think we should work closer and convince STINC to allow to blacklist particular users from being able to receive curation rewards - also based on some consensus rules.
I think that would be the best solution. We cannot keep downvoting same people hoping that they will not get bored abusing the pool. We would end up getting bored and tired of it first.
Cheers, Piotr
The problem here is that consensus does not necessarily mean that the final decision is morally acceptable or even the right one. We have mentioned before the idea of Tyranny of the majority. We need to find the right balance to give people the ability to use their power to influence the chain, and also to protect smaller influencers on the chain. We should not favor one side too much at the expense of the other side.
If you are fighting abuse manually, then yes, it is a tedious work that we do not wish for anyone to do. Thankfully, we can build smart bots that will make our job easier.
Thank you for participating in the discussion,