RE: Learn to Code Update: BYTE:STEM Diesel Pool Coming April 13th

People are strange. One never knows what will set someone off. The video was interesting. People drawn into denouncing witches can become more destructive than the people denounced as witches.

VYB went a little over the top in their distaste for self-voting.

But they do have a point. Both HIVE and SteemIt are dominated by groups that harvest rewards without providing much value.

Of course we are all trying to harvest rewards. Curation accounts harvest coins by upvoting content. IMHO, if the curator is sticking to its formula, then it is providing value. A curator account is only abusive if it upvotes posts outside its dedicated market.

I think that most most of the abuse takes place in the comment section. I upvote comments to encourage commenting. I upvote comments whose rewards are under $0.02 to sweep the dust.

Again, it is difficult to determine what is abuse and what is not in the comment section.

Just Some Brainstorming

Hey, I just had an idea.

We could create a tribe dedicated to harvesting HIVE rewards. The tribe could encourage members to upvote low value content in comments. To hide the design we could make up a word like, maybe, "treads."

The tribe could encourage self voting on the low value content in the treads.

I think that such a tribe could harvest the lion's share of the reward pool.

Come to think of it. Lion would be a good theme for the tribe.

We could give the coin a cat-themed symbol like MEOW.

Ooops. Never mind. Someone else is working that idea.