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RE: My last post?

last year

Thanks for sharing.

I have long hated the way DVs can so easily end up being weaponized. And, I've always hated the collateral damage that can result from a DV war between whales.

I noticed a year ago that your posts were being consistently nuked and that you had greatly curtailed your posting frequency as a result. As a fellow nerd, I always enjoyed your posts and found them informative and helpful. As such, I was sad to see them become so infrequent.

I have done a LOT of contemplation about the various issues related to on-chain abuse and past and current anti-abuse efforts. I have also dialogued a LOT with a lot of great Hivers about this issue, many who generally agree with me and some, like yourself, who have generally expressed disagreement with my points of view.

In any event, I plan to publish a post soon that will detail multiple different approaches that might help mitigate the problem of DV weaponization, while maintaining adequate protection against other forms of on-chain abuse, such as bot-nets, comment farming, spam and the like.

I am optimistic and hopeful that we can improve the situation considerably, with some relatively minor changes.

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@themarkymark80

last year

I have done a LOT of contemplation about the various issues related to on-chain abuse and past and current anti-abuse efforts. I have also dialogued a LOT with a lot of great Hivers about this issue, many who generally agree with me and some, like yourself, who have generally expressed disagreement with my points of view.

Despite my situation, I still believe downvotes are needed. My situation is very rare and is a tiny fraction of typical downvotes. There are only so many childish whales available. As I said in private a few times there are far more malicious upvotes than malicious downvotes, at least to a scale of 10,000:1 or even 100,000:1. Most "solutions" to this issue are easily countered by just making more accounts. Finally there are already tools available to counter this type of abuse, they just frequently are not used.

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@trostparadox69

last year

As I said in private a few times there are far more malicious upvotes than malicious downvotes, at least to a scale of 10,000:1 or even 100,000:1.

I respect that perspective (even if I am not fully convinced regarding the relative scope or impact). Even so, I believe there are some better methods we can employ, that will get us much closer to a both/and solution to help mitigate both types of abuse.