RE: No Excuses, Let's Create Solutions.
Thanks for contributing to the debate.
You write:
I’ve solved larger problems than this, simply put. I have organized national campaigns, solved enough problems and organized more people than I ever care to do again
May I observe that @thatguyjoe has about zero credibility. Had you chosen to use your real name and thus allow people to look up your profile on the internet, they could have found records backing up your claims. Under a pseudo, your claims are without substance. One can choose to believe them but you cannot possibly argue against someone who simply chooses to take them as lies and grandstanding.
You then say:
That time could have been spent curating a quality piece of content, getting a few of your friends together, and knocking him out of the top slot.
Not sure, that was a healthy and necessary debate that could allow us collectively to come to an agreement about where to try and move the platform. Debate is good, healthy, useful.
The only way we invest in ourselves longterm is by investing in ways to bring people and less ghosts abusing the system.
Yes, I keep saying this: we need more people and less ghosts and shill-accounts that are Sybil-attacking the platform. This is why I'm in favour of personal responsibility and 1:1 relationship between real world people and their steemit accounts.
What do I mean? Let's stop giving ghost accounts, or any account the free delegated SP upon creation. Instead let's ensure it's done on the production side.
I don't understand your proposal. The whitepaper (my only "bible" as I'm not fluent in C / C++ to read the code) says that the delegated SP (about 15 SP) is there to allow users to interact with with the blockchain (by posting) at least once a week (pages 21 - 22). If they can't interact with the blockchain (because they don't have bandwidth), on what do you upvote them ?
This would replace the need to create a 1 account per person mantra,
What drawback do you see to enforcing a "one person - one steem account" policy (assuming people can still use pseudonyms for account names if they wish, although I think that would be suboptimal)
I'm on my phone so I am a bit to lazy to do quotes,
Would my FB or LinkedIn suffice? My professional background? I mean national director on a presidential campaign should cover that, or campaign manager on a us Senate race would cover that would it not?
Taking a candidate down 22% up to down 4% in under a month, in order to help my former party, is a legitimate claim to my organizational and fast paced problem solving skills would it not be?
But in the community I am known as Joe, ChainsmokerJoe or Tirin depending on the platform,
And my involvement on the political side of our movement is quite extensive in protecting Blockchain in the United States, on a level exclusively preventing them from restricting us of our freedoms.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but you absolutely can post to Steemit without any SP or SBD, if I am wrong on that then correct then that idea is useless.
But If it is not, then they would earn that ability to interact quickly if introduceyourself also had mentorship and other tags associated with it, and of veterans on the platform felt more of an obligation to move it forward.
Because what I see currently is ghost accounts being created, botted out and used to upvote people's posts.
It absolutely could cover that. If it was provably true. Which is hard to do when nobody can link @thatguyjoe to whoever you claim it should be linked in real life. Are you Paul Manafort ? :-)
No you cannot. Accounts are not really free, even if they might seem like that. This is why this platform doesn't already have 1 billion accounts like the Zuck's. When you create an account you are granted a small sum (around 2 steem) from the pool of Steemit Inc (which is limited, otherwise steem could not claim to be like money); and you are lent another 13 SP (technically you are lent around 27 000 VESTS). That's why it takes so long to get a "free" account.
People who create ghost accounts have to pay for them. Not a lot, about 5 to 6 steem (and lend the rest) but still, they have to pay something. These people must be people who have considerable steem wealth and want to increase it even further through any means.
/joejsantaniello
Is the LinkedIn but it's so poorly updated.
That being said. Everyone knows me as "that guy Joe"
It's kind of a joke. Don't know how masternodes work "go ask that guy Joe"
Need to raise X for a project "go ask that guy Joe"
Need miners setup.
Need to sell OTC
Need to understand margins..
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You get it lol
I am sure my contract list on there with enough of the others in the industry can vouch for my credibility on that note.
Now that i understand that better, your proposal makes much more sense.
And how ghosting is even worse for the community, and why minnow booster has so many accounts that are literally just worth votes no $$$.
All ghosts, and it also explains why they struggle with keeping high SBD votes.
Which means there is a lot more to discuss, and steps needed to solve the prblem without sacrificing the annonimity of the platform and not requiring essentially kyc to get an account.