I've seen Distriator working, but still not got it straight in my head how it works. Will the reviews for rewards system scale?
I think communities have massive potential. They can work like reddit or FB groups with people posting about their favourite topic to an audience of like-minded folk. That can be short-form. This is what people already do for no reward, so why not benefit more from it? The issue is building the critical mass of users to keep it interesting. Elsewhere there are groups far bigger than the total active userbase of Hive. If we can get some momentum in on niche then we can build on that.
They can scale as long as the price of hive goes up. Which, as I think I'm implying would, because we stop the extractive forces. Circle jerking would hopefully die down too.
There will always be some form of abuse happening here. I just want to see more people get the benefits, but we stand to gain too of course.
Distriator has a very easy way to curtail abuse... If someone is "cheating" they their whitelisted status gets removed. No longer will they get kick backs, nor upvotes from them.
So... can it happen? Will it happen? Sure. Impossible that humans will behave all the time. But unlike downvoting, drama, insults and war. All you gotta do is delist them from their system. (they don't even need to know it happened).