RE: Why I Advise Against Linear Reward

[teamsteem]

They're up for grab for the next least selfish self-voters.

Indeed. It's a loophole with serious issues as I've stated.

The most likely contender for countering selfvoting is independent flagging pool along with burning of flagged reward

Leaving the rest for grab for the next least selfish self-voters leaving the same loophole open as I understand it.

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[transisto]

"next least selfish" = Not selfish.

Not sure how you understand it otherwise.

[teamsteem]

It doesn't put potential abusers at a disadvantage.

[transisto]

yes it does

[smooth]

Of course it does. They are more likely to be downvoted. Even if it isn't 100% guaranteed it pushes their incentives toward better (less likely to be downvoted) behavior

[teamsteem]

True but under linear reward, the rewards returned would represent a growing % of the reward pool with ever-growing incentive to defect.

Under crowdsourced flags, this isn't so.

[transisto]

Crowd-sourced? Compared to what?

[teamsteem]

I'M really not sure I understood their crowdsource concept correctly but if so, flags would have a separate pool and would be non-linear.

[transisto]

I came up with the idea of independent flagging pool, Here's something I posted about it.

https://steemit.com/steem/@transisto/separate-downvoting-power-pool-concept-visualized

There is only one user involved when down-voting so there is no "crowd" per se.