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RE: Steemvoter.com Author Spotlight Dec 31st 2016 (Happy New Years!!!)
Flagged as I see the crowd voting as Sybil attack. Also it's similar to pooled mining in other blockchains. Whether it has value, is subjective though.
@dantheman @ned thoughts?
@abit don't be so serious, Steemvoter is cool and fun, it's a social tool for non-technical whales. 800 subscribed accounts and over 6 million total SP says that it is a wanted service. Dude I've tried to talk to you in chat many times, you never reply and then come nuke my project without trying to reach out to me, that's like really anti-social :) anyway I know you are supporting @clayop cause you are both Korean i think, go look in the witness channel, he and I are friends now.
Just to add to my reply, with respect this is not a anything like a Sybil attack, a Sybil attack is normally initiated by one person using clone accounts to attack, in this case these accounts are from many users who signed up their individual Steem accounts via verified emails on our software, they have given us proxy to use their votes to vote on their author selection and on our posts for payment. This is exactly the same as giving another account proxy to vote on a witness, by the logic you are presenting, giving one account many witness proxies is a Sybil attack as well, and this is being done on the blockchain without any opposition.
I hope this changes your mind with respect to the Sybil attack reference.