It's fine when you buy BLURT and upvote your own posts only, your stake, your choice
In this logic, the delegation system should be removed from the Blurt blockchain, which would also solve the UPVU problem. On the other hand, it will be much harder for communities to emerge via the support of curation groups unless they are managed only by people who have acquired sufficient BLURT.
Nothing is ever perfect, and there will always be individuals who cheat, taking advantage of the fact that any action against them generates more or less collateral damage.
One of the main current weaknesses is the fact that the BLURT blockchain is small, with a restricted number of users, thus concentrating power. This is obvious when you look at governance votes not by weight but by volume.
Another is the low number of active devs and skilled techs, between those who have been demotivated and the non-existent number of new ones.
I don't know if you remember, but about 2 years ago we discussed this idea - me, double-u, ctime liked it and a fight with megadrive started, as a result of which double-u sold his BLURT and left. megadrive won't change anything, I bet he won't even withdraw his vote from symbionts proposal, he won't even fix proposal system
No, that would make things much easier. MD could stop blurtbooster and use your bot instead. He would set curators for every community and follow their upvotes
Btw, your bot after some changes would probably be able to check whether upvoted account is on COAL list or not
Two years ago, I was just an occasional user of the Blurt blockchain, only coming here as a blogger to post from time to time. I became genuinely interested in this blockchain a little over a year ago when I saw its potential and realized that some of my projects could find a good home here. Even if everything isn't perfect - because the perfect and magical world doesn't exist, just as you can't agree with everyone 100% - I've found some interesting ideas and features.
I looked into some discussions from that time, but not everything, as it seemed to be a very prolific period. I preferred to look towards the future rather than the past, although I acknowledge that the past also holds significance. From what I understood, there was a community movement, particularly from the German-speaking community, which was quite active on Blurt but a significant portion of which has since left. There was also a discussion about a tag called IDUVTS.
I do believe that supporting manual curators by community is a good direction to take.
In a few days, I should finally be able to dedicate more time to Blurt. I've been heavily occupied with one of my clients who found themselves in a critical situation requiring urgent development work. I hope to wrap up two major projects: a streamlined onboarding system with an affiliate program and support tools for those managing curation and community engagement.
BLURT is not perfect! But it does work for doing certain things better than what’s available. And it’s better than anything anyone else can come up with, with any amount of money, in any amount of time, AVAILABLE NOW!
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P.S - if there is a spike in prices (bitcoin halving etc) - A prime time to liquidize any crypto assets - especially DPoS/POS....in my opinion....
Delegation should be a system for newcomers, where you can support them. I think that when you're delegating 10k Blurt for someone, it should be worth only 5k on this account.
I'm so happy to see you here and building Blurt. Hope you are always healthy.