Hi, @danmaruschak,

I think the community should discuss whether self-votes should be allowed

What we have learned these past years is that humans can be very imaginative when they want something, especially if there is a monetary gain from it. There will always be abuse as long as the distribution of rewards is linked to a human factor.

The more we think about it, the more we are accepting the idea of completely separating the PoB model from the native token and leave it to SMTs. The Current PoB is like a one-point failure (long term economic success), It cannot and will never work because we are expecting people of different religions and cultures to agree on what is quality and what should be considered moral.

After dealing with the abuse mess, we should really start thinking about how we can use SMTs to enrich the Steem ecosystem and solve some of its flaws.

Thank you a lot for dropping by and sharing your thoughts with us.