So why doesn't Steemit Inc implement changes that would clearly reflect better on the image of Steemit to the broader crypto space? After all, this platform presently is the face of the steem blockchain; SMTs aren't out yet and Utopian, Dtube, and Dsound are still up and coming.
It's as if the very notion of reward pool abuse has been accepted as a necessary evil and there's nothing we can do about it. It's even implied in the Steem White Paper itself. The founders anticipated the problems that would arise out of allowing self voting, for example. Yet they still allowed it.
On page 6 of 32 it states, "The challenge faced by Steem is deriving an algorithm for scoring individual contributions that most community members consider to be a fair assessment of the subjective value of each contribution."
Clearly, as Bernie and others have pointed out, this challenge is still faced by the platform, nearly two years after its inception. Something has got to give.
Leadership needs to address this sooner rather than later. With every day that passes, more cryptocurrencies pop up - steem is losing the valuation race despite the first mover advantage it has on so many other projects. It will likely continue to do so until Steemit's systemic flaws are addressed, or something far superior shines as the face of the steem blockchain.
Because the CEO is too busy jerking himself off for $6k for running off the genius that produced this entire project:
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Pretty much agree with what you've said. It's been a problem, enhanced by the linear rewards, and is creating fundamental rifts within the community itself.
As for Steemit Inc, I can't speak on behalf of their team, but from what I've seen they've got different priorities. Whether you and I agree with them doesn't necessarily impact those decisions that they made. Currently they're working on blockchain optimizations and SMTs. As witnesses (and by proxy, the witness voters), it's up to us to decide which code to implement once it's developed, but we don't have all that much control over what's actually developed and in which order.
The current situation is basically that those two things are coming down the pipe, and we would be stupid to block them out of any disagreement related to priorities. These two features are both valuable things to the blockchain itself, even if some of us believe that the fundamentals should be addressed first.
I'm personally one that believes fundamentals should be addressed first. You want a rock-solid foundation to build the more advanced features upon, and the more features you add to a system, the harder it is to fix down the road.
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but isn't the steemit codebase open source? if so, wouldn't it be open for anybody to enhance the code, and the witnesses to subsequently vote that code in ?
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Correct, it's open source and anyone could, then that hardfork could be adopted by the witnesses.
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yes but don't you think it would be hard as it stands the steeminc team are the major power holders so it's 30% their call, if they don't like it, witnesses get voted off the list :D
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Yup, exactly. That's the ace in the pocket for them. To their credit they haven't used that power yet to override witnesses and don't engage in witness voting activities (anymore), but that threat still looms.
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Hope you guys resolve the post issue in the next hard fork ...I propose 1 post or 1 vlog video a day...if someone has something to say then put it all in 1 post ..2 will even be too much when we reach millions of users . This will reduce the cheat and flooding the system with 5+ posts even 10 daily ...and bots upvotes max 3 days or even 2 days will be great so abusers can be downvoted on time. These changes has to come from steemit inc and you as my number one witness @jesta has to propose this to your team and @ned ...steemit is in life support now and we all have to act against vampires sucking all...many top witnesses are among the abusers hence why they kept quiet till their stomach bust with SBD and all goes down.
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well there was that 4 posts rule, that was dropped a few months ago for mainstream adoption and spam pictures from zapple and whatever :) everyone was happy.
Content and good conversation are a thing of the past, at least it looks like that for me, from what I've seen here, problems get brushed under the carpet and it's business as usual, there are many great people and minds here and it's a shame it's going downhill, but you have the whole human condition lumped up in one place and it is what it is :)
here is a post of mine from a while back, feel free to read up, since I can see you joined in a few months after that, you probably weren't here during the whale no-vote , which was one of the major fractures the community has been through, the hardforkes are the other time shit hits the fan.
But as it was intended things were very different half a year ago.
https://busy.org/steemit/@j3dy/save-those-whales-save-those-snails-a-series-on-steemit-full-on-part-a
https://busy.org/steemit/@j3dy/whale-wars-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-or-stay-tuned-or-profits-or-community-or-pleas
I've outlined most of the problems I see in steem there at least from a general perspective, I've went into it from a personal one a few times as well but I don't want to drag you back a year back haha
cheers mate, don't count on anyone here improving anything, DIY :)
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yes but stinc team are holding the reigns on the code and witnesses so it's their call on most of the problems, .... sooooo not really, anybody can speak up and mostly get either shot down or they have to be accepted by the team, subsequently the witnesses, in the perfect situations the people would have the power to vote witnesses in, but we have a system that is in favor of the early adopters and they rushed a bit of the "corrections"
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