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RE: Working Group Election Process | Important Town Hall Election Information
The voting system is very easy to manipulate. And this system will give the same weight to a 70 rep user and a 25 rep user.
Most 70 rep users are real people. Most 25 rep users are not real. They are either bots or soc puppets. And manual checking can't do much if a user uses anon services to create their accounts.
This system also could be manipulated by giving bribes like jarrybenfield did with witness votes. The voting system should be based on stake and reputation.
Yes, agreed in principle, but we still felt it was a sufficient enough barrier for puppet accounts. Also for a role that is a lot of work and has so little power.
Now for actual foundation proposals it does make sense to look at stake, but that's not what we're deciding here.
Bribery is an orthogonal issue and would still be a problem in stake based system.
We have a channel called #working-group-feedback in the discord server and welcome all ideas 🙂
stake and reputation has been discussed and I hope will be a discussion the new group has immediately. But as with everything, many feel this method is also unfair. So, it’s definitely an interesting topic.
Rep can be bought so that's not really trustworthy either.
What? How can rep be bought?
Bid Bots.
send 50 steem to me and see your rank boost...
NOT !!!
Reputation?
You mean that thing one can buy using bidbots ?
You have to actually pay Steem to bidbots to increase reputation. By doing that you are using Steem. On the other hand, in the system proposed above won't require you to spend much steem to become a voter. There is a big difference between the two.