What they should do IMO is implement a Rep minimum to be able to vote for witnesses. So noone below Rep lvl 40 or something, can vote for a witness. I think it took until I hit lvl 40 to KNOW and understand a bit what a witness is and does anyway. That would add an extra layer to help weed out proxies at starting rep.
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while that is good, it doesn't require much to get to 40 if you have an account with a strong upvote. I'm thinking worse case here this could be easily done by any whale and or have already been done
Well, we wouldn't want to put the minimal rep too low because new people want to feel involved and get involved. So it's important to be inclusive. While it might not be fair to know that someone might find loopholes to take advantage of the system, most of us act in a moral way and are honest. This system is free and accentuates freedom, so technically, whether we agree or not, to implement too many rules and restrictions means to take away that freedom.
Personally, while I don't agree that some witnesses will "cheat" so to speak, I prefer there to be freedom than not. We just need to trust. There's no way to know, and I don't think there ever will be a way to know, not with a free system in a decentralised system that promotes freedom, and I'm okay with that. I value the freedom part more.
Yeah but the problem is it that if people can cheat the system, they will. Our trust doesn't stop Trump from joining tomorrow and buying millions of STEEM and just shitting on the STEEM blockchain with like 20 top witness accounts in control of everything.
You're right. But it's a free system. Do we want decentrilized and free of control, or do we want controlled and centralized? I now I want free of control. It sounds like you would like to find a middle ground, and perhaps that is possible, but perhaps a witness would have some ideas for that.
Yeah I mean to be fair though if my worst scenario were to come true, then there would be no freedom at all. Steemit would be ruined. I don't want it centralized I just want loopholes fixed I guess
I can understand that. The best people to talk to about your concerns are witnesses. You can take a look at some of the top witnesses and contact them, comment on their posts, find out which ones are programming things and see what they have to say. They'll be happy to take your ideas and concerns into consideration and see if anything can be done without compromising what Steemit is and represents.
I'm thinking moving forward I'd like to run as one to represent the values and and concerns of minnows whose interests I feel aren't taken in equally to those of whales etc. who end up running as witnesses and having misaligned values from the majority on here. For example, allowing witnesses who have gone inactive to stay in the top places due to people leaving their votes their. I think inactive voter accounts who voted and then just never came should be revalidated as the person they voted for could be completely different and or inactive as said before.