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RE: FLAG WARS - Where "might makes right" continues to rule
This is by default though.
There are only so many shares to be voted on. One user capitalizing upwards of 2% of the reward pool for everyone is akin to taking tens of thousands more shares than the next user, and self voting and circle voting is harmful to the platform because they are litereally taking away the rewards from everyone. When you flag someone you are giving those rewards back to the pool to be redistributed, in turn in the past it has been a selfless endeavor where the whales would flag post that were vote by whales, in turn it made everyone elses voting power go up 10-50x, #whaleexperiement days.
ehh interesting things to think about. I am not so much into the technical workings of these things, but I am interested in researching it. Its really a sort of moral issue at this point I suppose. Are people trying to be like robin hood around here?
No, it's simply the principle of self policing. I see nothing commendable about not confronting abuse. Sometimes we have to fight fire with fire and in this instance we have a oil well fire that can only be put out by the blunt force trauma of a explosion. An ocean of water will not quench that, everyone can keep on voting like "flags" hurt but nothing short of taking away the RIDICULOUS payouts for ZILCH effort will stop it, and why not, that is prime parasitical behavior, you don't play nice with parasites.
I dont really agree with fighting fire with fire. I dont get that analogy at all. I dont understand self policing very well either, since there are few examples in real life.
You are taking away the fuel of the fire before it burns, by burning it. This is done in real life in forest fires by controlled burns and this is how they stop petroleum well fires, by blowing the fire away with explosives. Here you are basically invalidating a few votes and in turn making all others votes worth more. The point in self policing is that we, the community has to make a stand. When the community (aka 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and so many people) stand up with their voice saying "this shit is fucked" then pressure mounts as solidarity is unified against the abuse. This is not a debate about fairness, everyone and the dog knows what is fair, what this is about is the greed of a few which costs everyone directly and indirectly in numerous ways as people are clearly faced with the appalling abuse of steem by these actors. Some people don't understand that yes indeed one vote could be worth 10000 or 100000 other votes and this is what is happening here. Nobody sees this as fair, unless they have deluded themselves that such bullshit tea leaf nonsense is actually worth more than $10. Go tell some poor folk that live on $5 a day that that asshole deserves to make numbers that they cannot even fathom, he makes more a week than a village in a year. Fuck this shit. This is not what steem is for.