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RE: Is This Hive's Verified Check Mark?
So if a spammer posts nonsense with a couple accounts then uses an alt to upvote it, effectively paying themselves for nothing, but has a blue checkmark, people will back off and just leave them alone? As if it's some kind of shield? Then people have to listen to them be all like, "I paid for this checkmark! Don't you know who I am!" Because it's supposed to mean something?
I don't get it.
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Ok yes, let's go over some options, just freestyle out of my head - no magic. Keep in mind, we talk about permanently locked / soulbond Hive Power.
Here's the playbook:
We have a new user, he comes around and starts to dig into the ecosystem. 0 Clue, very little research, no discord contact (as it should be). There's a steep learning curve ahead of him, it might take a year to get on level. He puts out some good posts, some bad, some good comments, and some very bad.
Scenario 1
You Permanently Locked 120HP to get a "fully verified" on a new account
(Twitter Blue is ~96$ a year, you pay upfront the first year)
Usually what people do is, will post low-quality, unoriginal stuff and misplace content by the community selection. We can now help them renavigate them into the right corner without downvoting them because they have already invested 120HP. That lets us crowdsource the education work and immediately releases us from the pressure to police the rewards for a long period of time. Tbh, it takes a while for a new account to earn that Hive with shitty posts.
Scenario 2.
You commit to locking up 10Hive a month every month, you can stop - but the badge will disappear and you get a lower level verified at the beginning.
That means you have very little commitment at the start, but you can earn your way into the stake month to month without converting additional fiat. People will be more inclined to help you reach those monthly targets and if you post trash or overreach in comments, there's a least a certain amount of shield before you get pulled over to a full struggle session including a public humiliation.
Scenario 3.
It's an attacker, fully AI or semi-automated.
Those will be a lot in the near future, dramatically increasing with cheaper AI APIs and professional tools for human-like behaviors. Right now, we have to act swiftly and mercilessly to get a hold of those. Those verified batches work as a deterrent to some degree, but if not, you still have to commit to an investment in preparation for your attack - which wasn't the case before. You now have a higher break-even, which kills the option of a super thin very wide circle of voting and if you get found out, you can't just rugg all the accounts and leave because you have soulbound HP on them. Nevertheless, an attack is very possible, but the attacker will have a lot more to lose if found out while using verified accounts.
This was full freestyle, have merci with my half-backed stings of thought.
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Generally, you don't have to police an account that behaves like a humanoid and has made a permanent financial contribution for a very long time on this chain. You can look and advise and stay back, no urgent need to interfere.
And that is very important, as Nathan Senn has pointed out multiple times, right now as an entrepreneur, you can't finance any onboarding effort because the conversion after a week or two is close to 0%. The only exception is the incubator by OCD, putting people through massive preparation and rewarding them with 50-100$ introduction posts, some still leave shortly after that xE
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