RE: Ask Me Anything - Marky Edition
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Do you feel that your past history of selling votes was a necessary evil or how do you feel about it?
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Do you feel that your past history of selling votes was a necessary evil or how do you feel about it?
If I didn't do it, someone else would with the same SP and they would have sold votes to pretty much anyone rather than preventing spammers, plagiarists, and scammers from using it.
I'd rather have the system we have now, but that wasn't in the cards back then and none of the bots were preventing abuse of their bots or actively fighting abuse on the chain.
I still believe all platforms have and should have advertising, and at the time that was the only form available.
What had mitigated that issue on hive? Was it the 50/50 split or is it something y'all still content with?
I recall some of the players of old such as boomerang iirc that had little to no accountability.
The EIP gave the community the resources (free downvotes) to combat spam and abuse, they collectively decided Bid Bots were not favorable. The increased curation also encouraged people to curate rather than to sell votes or shit post. Although both of these still happen just not nearly as much.
That being said, very few people actually use downvotes or do anything about abuse.
I intend to help change the latter to fulfill the expectation I have given SFR ppl.
Think I will try to be exclusively a tech facilitator moving forward as it was a lot of drama, bullshit and stress to play flags and robbers.
Sometimes good work is hard. There is a reason no one wants to do it.
For the record and any other readers, I am still ambivalent towards the practice of vote selling even with some ethical controls.
I don't necessarily agree with the "someone else is going to do unethical thing worse than me so I might as well be the one to do and profit from doing x thing in a less impactful way" position.
But I understand why people are were this way considering the highly competitive nature of the platform and the prevailing culture at the time. It was awful.
Only a handful of bid botters worked with us abuse fighters and I will commend that Marky was one of them.