In fact, what would result out of the kind of action I am proposing, would be to strengthen the economic integrity of Steem, it would almost certainly raise the price through stopping the syphon of these malicious actors, and with more money available in total within the community, stronger defences can be built.
The more I work with Steem, the more I am becoming convinced that Radical Transparency is a crucial element of the emerging future society. By making the intelligence gathering a community effort, and placing all the data in publicly accessible, uncensorable repositories like the Steem Blockchain, the bad guys don't have the exclusive access to this data. This means good guys can use it to catch the bad guys, without anyone having to trust a bunch of scumbags who have over and over again proven they care nothing about the sanctity of life, peace and prosperity. People who market themselves as community servants when in fact they are robbing us all blind.
Agreed. I love transparency. But I'm against being ganged up on. I posted about this same thing on my Steemit and it was downvoted so much that the visibility was partly hidden. My reputation may go down because I wrote bout these things that we are talking about right now. Based on my over 20 years of experience on the Internet, I have seen these things happen many times to me and to others on many websites since about 1996.
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I love to go after the bad people but it is always a question of who decides who the bad people are. To determine the bad people, you need to first define what is bad. Some on Steemit may define good and bad through subjectivity / relativism but others define it through objectivity.
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Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Block chains like Steemit seems to have some kind of democratic consensus and voting system and that might be the best way to do things. I cannot say exactly and I probably do not know. I hope for the best for Steemit and other platforms too for the future and I am agreeing with you about transparency. I love Steemit and Gab and Bitcoin and many things.
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I'm mostly concerned and worried about the demographics of the people in the world both offline and especially online. If the bad people outnumber the good people on Steemit and then the bad people downvote the good people's content and upvote the content of the bad people, then the bad people get more money and more visibility and the good people would then get the opposite. I hope the good people always rise to the top and I encourage the better people to rise to the top to vote up great things and everything. But I am speaking more of a potential problem.
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I think that radical transparency is the key weapon that will enable the global distributed systems users to be able to exert their influence on reforming human society.
We are part way along the road to this destination, and we here are given the gift of learning this before the world discovers what is brewing.
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