RE: Cheetah bot: The Fight Against Spam and Plagiarism Continues

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Cheetah bot: The Fight Against Spam and Plagiarism Continues

in steemit •  8 years ago 

maybe a good future option would be to "flag in secret!"

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Guess people like that idea :) not being able to see the down voters is good, but what happens if someone goes on to flag things that have no reason? I down voted something and the person told me why they had reposted a post and I told them I thought that was fine and removed my flag. I like to be able to see flags so I can see if some is just jealously voting down content. I feel that using your flag should be shown to keep people from trolling and being anonymous while doing so. I like the transparency it brings, but believe it should be voted on by the community as a whole.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

@bendjmiller222 flagging reduce voting power significant, so I guess there is no great motivation for spam flagging... Maybe a added good solution to flag spamming would be if each flag would have increased weight when combined with more flags on the same post(?)...

6 upvotes and 1,286$ !!! that's not a comment its a speech from Obama ;)

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

I want a "mutter just out of earshot" button.

@liondani excellent :)

Is that possible? I thought everything is public on a blockchain?

hence the quote "good future"

I don't like secret. There more open the better. We should embrace transparency.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@l0k1/downvoting-and-reputation-my-thoughts-on-what-works-and-what-doesnt
This is my take on it. I think reputation scores are an incentive for Sybil attacks and downvotes that take money amount to stealing. I might be going a bit overboard on that last point but I think that reputation is a personal thing, and should be scored according to your own voting and the voting of those you vote on, etc. And downvoting should be like blocking, except in a more granular fashion, it downranks others position in your feed not everyones, but to a lesser degree also for everyone who upranks you, or the opposite, if they downrank you.