Also, I don't see why it has to be quality posts or short posts. @dbuzz D.Buzz offers a Twitter like interface for short posts with a max 1 HBD reward and there is another DApp being developed (I forget the name and haven't tested it yet) which offers the same but groups the users "tweets" in a single thread. Why can't we have both short and quality posts?
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My point was about how Hive mutated to an automatization world and how that's a problem, but a given due to the conditions.
@therealwolf I didn't realise your point, however I was just thinking about that myself. Why not disallow autovotes? It's really just raping the reward pool, is it not? I don't autovote. I do delegate to curators who manual vote though.
But again, to be able to not allow autovotes, we would need a governance system which allows all users to vote on such proposals without stake based bias. Please investigate The Matrix-8 Solution, I would really appreciate your feedback.
https://peakd.com/hive-153630/@atma.love/matrix-8-questions-and-answers
Auto-voting is a mutation of the system in which people found it easier/better to automate voting instead of doing it manually. Disallowing will do nothing there; besides not even being possible to "ban" it.
Really? Not possible to ban it? Surely there must be a way to change to code to prevent autovotes? Perhaps I am naive!
Banning autovotes doesn't work because you can bypass it simply by using an alternate account (post with one account an selfvote with the other).
Ok. Maybe you're right. I don't fully understand how autovotes work, presumably they are done using a bot. I'm still not convinced though.
I wonder how things would work out if the amount of rewards paid were based partly upon reputation?
Sorry, my response is incorrect. I thought that you were referring to selfvotes not autovotes. The reason that you cannot ban autovotes is that there is no way to enforce it. The blockchain nodes have no way of knowing if a vote was done by a human or a script. They only check if the data is valid. Some people have suggested to use captcha but that only works on websites that control access in a centralized way but anyone can send transactions to a blockchain using any interface or build their own (that is how decentralized networks work).