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RE: [Proposal] A New Efficient Way to Cope with Abusers
This is a good post and I am happy that you thought about a way to fight abuse.
From my understanding the concept of villages is similar to what Steemit.inc is working on, communities. Even though I am looking very much forward to the implementation of this I am not sure it can address the in my view most damaging abuse which are bot self upvotes.
Checking the content of either village or community still remains a manual task by humans and therefore has only minimal effect in fighting bot votes.
To effectively change this kind of abuse I think a code change to comment rewards is required that either
- Reduce comment payouts.
- Prevents self votes. (e.g. if post and comment IP match than block vote).
- Remove comment rewards entirely.
Communities are off chain but villages are on-chain that can influence rewards. Bot self voting can be addressed by 1) mods blacklist bots in the village, and 2) users downvote villages (so no reward) those mods allow bot self-voting.
Thank you for clarifying. The solution sounds good.