Resteeming this to the very few audience I have.
Good initiative, @papa-pepper!
So far, I like the idea of limiting daily posts to 4.
It seems to have been tested and worked before, so no reason to not bring it back.
Sure, there's a tiny bit of restriction on freedom. But what exactly has worked well with 100% freedom in the first place?
You think you have 100% control and freedom in your life but, there too, my friend, you'd be wrong.
It was tried before, and sockpuppets easily sidestep it. Given how easily it was circumvented, there was no reason to continue it. Restrictions on freedom are generally sidestepped.
Better to think of ways to encourage behaviour you like, than of ways to force people to comply with your demands, generally, I reckon.
I think most people realize this, and thus the upvote is overwhelmingly more popular than the flag.
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Ah you're right. I guess I overlooked that bit.
This sucks man, what are we to do? 😂
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First, identify the actual problem.
The number of posts isn't the actual problem. Folks that make lotsa posts do so for a reason.
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Hmm okay...the actual problem is the reward pool depleting at a quick rate? I guess we could start from there?
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Actually, that's a symptom too.
What might cause the rewards pool to deplete too rapidly?
It doesn't just do that for no reason.
I'll try to cut to the chase. The posts that drain the pool excessively aren't upvoted by folks that admire the writing. We're talking about posts that are upvoted by bots for money, or circle jerked.
Ordinary folks can't cause that to happen. It can only result when a whale(s) are doing the voting with massive stakes.
The actual cause of the problem is financial manipulation of the rewards mechanism for profit.
Limiting the number of posts can't fix that.
Without resolving the underlying problem, which isn't any particular individual's posts, but ROI for whales being enabled by the code - the rules - we won't be able to fix it.
The real impediment to a solution is that Steemit Inc., and the witnesses who are elected by stake-weighted votes (meaning the whales elect the top witnesses, since they have all the stake) are dependent for their success on the whales.
That is why the code is what it is, because the whales want ROI (return on investment). Stinc and the witnesses exist to serve the whales, and if they don't serve the whales, they don't exist for long.
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Woah. So, you propose we make the good behavior easy to follow and bad ones hard to, right?
Did you try contacting @ned with your verification solution?
I'm sure it'll be well received!
Thanks for taking the time to explain all that. :)
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@ned and the witnesses are dependent on the whales that demand the bots, since the bots provide their ROI.
Top witnesses and Stinc despise the idea. @neoxian is telling me right now in no uncertain terms that it will never happen.
2FA is expensive, slow, and a PITA. Worse, it will force whales to depend on capital gains for returns on their investments, and they like their ROI the way it is now.
They're in charge. That's why this is the present situation, because it benefits them, and they're the ones that matter. They have all the Steem.
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That means now we need to find an alternative source of income for whales, instead of forcing them to stop earning altogether.
Any ideas? Manual curation is one way but takes more effort than earning through bots.
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