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RE: Ask Me Anything - Marky Edition - October 2024
Spam and scams seem able to pursue financial returns through other mechanisms than upvotes, so DV's would seem an ineffective mechanism to censor them. Some spam is not financially motivated. IIRC Bernie almost crashed the platform with spam at one point, and that required changes to code consensus witnesses (temporarily) implemented. Later Resource Credits were implemented, which limited such recursive spamming by the stake held, greatly reducing spam's potential impact on the platform.
You have worked diligently to prevent spam and scams from harming Hive and the community, which I reckon makes you an expert on how this mechanism works. Why do DV's work so well to prevent spam and scams on Hive?
They don’t really, it is mainly controlling rewards not censoring.
Censorship is any suppression of information, and disrupting financial mechanisms is one of the primary mechanisms used to effect censorship. It's why Canada seized the bank accounts of people donating to honking truckers, and why that seizure ended the Freedom Convoy.
Anyway, other than DV's there is only resource credits to limit spam and scams, yet you have been very effective in reducing both those harms to the platform for years. Is there some other mechanism you have to discourage them, or has DV'ing them just been that effective?
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