@themarkymark witness update and incident response

themarkymark (78) in witness • 6 years ago (edited)

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6 years ago by themarkymark (78)

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markangeltrueman (67) · 6 years ago

One thing it does bring to light is how responsive the top witnesses are to this sort of thing. I cannot imagine this kind of quick turnaround for an issue in the sector in which I work as my full-time job - banking. There would have been meetings and phonecalls to arrange more meetings and phonecalls. It's encouraging to see everyone working together to protect service.

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novacadian (58) · 6 years ago

Why you should vote me as witness

Although you presently still have my support for witness this could soon come to an end due to the voting bots issue.

My position as to why voting bots are bad for the steem community were laid out in a recent blog post, whose link is included for your reading pleasure.

https://steemit.com/steem-network/@novacadian/where-is-the-trust-in-proof-of-brain-mining

A solution was suggested in a more recent post, whose link is included for your reading pleasure.

https://steemit.com/steem/@novacadian/a-decentralized-capcha-annonymous-proof-of-brain-verification

My question is, would you support my solution outlined in the link above?

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago (edited)

I am not a fan of the idea of captcha and I don't think voting bots are the issue, trending sucked before voting bots, it sucked during, and it will suck after unless other things are fixed.

The problem is 80% of Steem users shit post and put no effort into their content and there is not enough manpower or stake being used to counter their actions.

The steem power used by voting bots offers a fair and transparent promotion service for all Steemians. Remove them, and it will go underground and will be similarly used but will not be transparent, fair, and limited to the select few in the good 'ol boys clubs.

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novacadian (58) · 6 years ago (edited)

Guess you didn't read the first link that explains how non-proof of brain voting is producing counterfeit steem.

Appreciate all that you do for the community and genuinely like you from our interactions on the platform yet my new policy of supporting only witnesses that support abating the creation of counterfeit steem will mean my support for you as witness will be given elsewhere.

P.S. You will likely not notice my minnow sp.

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago (edited)

I did read it, but it creates no more steem than if the original SP (delegator or bot owner) used if voted. The same amount of steem is used, it is just distributed more across many users.

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novacadian (58) · 6 years ago (edited)

It is not meeting the criteria of proof of brain. It would be like a proof of work miner changing the algorythm. Such coins are counterfeit. That is, made under false pretence.

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago

Have a look at New and tell me how much proof of brain is going on.

The fact of the matter is Bid Bots are here, like every media platform on the planet there is promotion. I would rather see it run fair and transparently than underground and black market.

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novacadian (58) · 6 years ago (edited)

A CAPCHA would sort the wheat from the chaff for those that choose to use it.. Even if only as a tool for SMT Distributors who wish to only promote their coins to real viewers.

One's settings could have an option to use the CAPCHA or not. The rewards from those who use it should be greater than those that don't do as to encourage users to comply to steem's white paper.

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novacadian (58) · 6 years ago (edited)

Have a look at New and tell me how much proof of brain is going on.

You are proving my point.

P.S. An even better example is Trending.

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mstafford (67) · 6 years ago

Shocked how you're not one of the top20 witnesses -- you seem to be doing substantially more for the community (at least in a visual way) than most.

Big ups. Keep up the good work.

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago

Thanks, I'm trying but doesn't feel like that will ever happen.

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garudi (61) · 6 years ago (edited)

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nathen007 (68) · 6 years ago

Was morning in Thailand when I couldn't log on! Was not panicking at all lol !! Any chance Steemit inc. could tell its users in advance when there is going to be downtime please :-)

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago (edited)

It wasn't planned, but I am sure there will be an announcement soon describing what happened. We are in better shape now than we were yesterday.

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nathen007 (68) · 6 years ago

Cool, keep up the good work fella and have a great day :-)

Is there any possibility I would understand what happened when they describe it ? lol....doubtful :-) some things are best left unsaid!!

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago

Yeah, it isn't too complex, just unexpected.

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dylanhobalart (65) · 6 years ago

Thanks for getting us thought the great steem blackout of 2018

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marlyna15 (29) · 6 years ago

Thanks @themarkymark for the update. Have a nice day

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taaveti (56) · 6 years ago

@themarkymark, We appreciate you staying up so late to get the nodes updated and back online.

You already had my witness vote. Thank you for being a reliable witness.

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meenu1 (27) · 6 years ago

Nice post
Good luck

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bozz (70) · 6 years ago

Thanks for being vigilant on this. I just changed my witness voting from a proxy to manual and you for sure have one of my votes. Thanks for the update!

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago

Thanks ;)

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keithboone (65) · 6 years ago

Thank you for providing this info... I often feel like there is nobody explaining these outages. From my user perspective, Steemit seems to have abysmal uptime. Would love to see some stats on this.

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago

Once there is an official announcement, I can break it down into laymen's terms if need be, but I don't want to be the one to announce it.

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keithboone (65) · 6 years ago

Thank you, that would be appreciated.

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catataniranda (59) · 6 years ago

interesting and useful information

I have a little note, maybe you are interested to read it. I do not expect an upvote from you if it is not interesting. But if you are willing to read it I am very happy. Hope you always suskes.
https://steemit.com/indonesia/@catataniranda/15-steemian-world-with-the-highest-reputation-one-from-indonesia-bilingual-f64ccc89132f1

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pankuvirat (39) · 6 years ago (edited)

Could not log in to my account. Was not scared though. The team must inform about this in advance.

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themarkymark (78) · 6 years ago

No one knew it was going to happen, there was no way to notify in advance.

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pankuvirat (39) · 6 years ago

Ahh thats okay, I voted for you in the witness post.

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sunlit7 (59) · 6 years ago

Really bad timing...lol, taking more backlash from stuff said a couple weeks ago, in the comment there was "she could have flagged your account down to nothing" to which I replied I would say the same thing again...next thing I know everything goes down...lol, now that is truly what you call bad timing. I thought I was banished into some never land.