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RE: How to Learn Programming - A Beginner's Guide
upvote reward = UA * SP effectively solves the self-upvote problem, all by itself! This mechanism cannot be tricked!
- if a self-upvoter is publicly identified by the UA mechanism, people simply need to unfollow that user
- the UA probability distribution diminishes the self-upvote powers automatically
- in case of multi-upvote-bots and SP delegation by the self-upvoter (look below), those bots would be powerless because nobody would follow them, hence an extremely low amount of UA.
PS: your solution (diminishing multi-self upvotes) could be circumvented via delegating SP to self-owned upvote bot-accounts. Suppose user X, a wealthy (as in: owns much SP) self-upvoter, would delegate 10% of SP to 10 self-owned upvote bots (10 * 10% = 100% of his/her SP). Then it wouldn't be self-upvoting anymore, and each bot would only need to upvote once per post.
Sorry, I have to leave, therefore for now a short reply only: yes, you are right, by delegating Steem power my idea can be circumvented. Actually I am against delegating Steem power, too! :) Too often people who got delegated some Steem power just used it to sell their votes ... that is against the idea of seeking and rewarding good quality content.
I will read your post more thoroughly when I am back home again.
I am all for delegating SP!
.. so a lot of good can be done with delegating SP!
Please do take your time to re-read my article How-to solve SPAM and Democratize Steem: Introducing UserAuthority because "UserAuthority", really can solve a lot of Steem problems once implemented via HFs.
See ya!
First of all: it's of course no problem for me that we are of different opinions concerning Steem power delegations.
If he would upvote you regularly instead, you would collect own Steem power anyway (and his upvotes would still be more effective, because a smaller amount of his power would be delegated away from him). In the German community many people thanked me that I didn't delegate anything, because they noticed that manual upvotes of other accounts (who have delegated a lot) have nearly no effect anymore. I prefer manual voting after reading what I am voting for. I want to upvote good content and not content because it is written by a certain user. That means my Steem power must be available to be able to use it manually.Also you yourself earn much more by the upvotes you receive for your articles than from curation rewards of your delegated Steem power. In addition the already mentioned vote buying is an abuse of receiving delegated Steem power which I observed more than once ...
But anyway, as soon as anywhere are more than one persons in the same room, there is also more than one opinion. :-)
OMG, you are indeed correct, so it seems... Could you please contact me via DM on (preferably) Discord, or steem.chat? I'd like to ask you some questions regarding steem delegation. Also @scipio in the chats...