I don't have voting power, but to me it looks like those well-known managerial decisions made without any study. Wouldn't it be wiser to first do a statistical study, calculate the impact of such negative accounts for the platform? For me, decision without study is an outdated management thing
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Wrong.
There has been endless discussion on this topic for months ….
For days and days people have been discussing the issue of stolen content.
Something needs to be done about people who steal photos and other works of Art and pretend they are theirs.
How do you propose to deal with such criminal activity ?
If there is a study then it should make decision making much easier. Discussing is different from doing a technical study. So my suggestion would be: First do a technical study and see if it's really worth approaching the subject
I look forward to reading your outline proposal for this study - how long do you think you'll need to complete it?
I can propose but I wouldn't have time to do it (my job doesn't leave me much time, and the time I have I use to study and participate in competitions).
The proposal would basically be to analyze historical data (after all, we have everything stored on the blockchain) and start with basic statistics (example: % of content with plagiarism, % of reward pool stolen, etc.).
If the volume of data is too large, they could collect samples and do a study on the samples. After the study, a report would be issued and submitted to the most important people on the platform, leaving it also public for others.
Then the discussions would begin, using the available data.
Thus, if the study is well designed, the decision can be made correctly, and we eliminate the biases and influences that some people exert (as happens in Steem/Hive)
It's ok, we can wait.
It sounds like you'll need at least a couple of weeks and then we can reconvene and discuss.
As I said, I don't have time to do the study, but at least I leave my proposal to the community
Hopefully somebody else will read this and have plenty of free time on their hands. And then we can repeat the emotional debate between the "fors" and "againsts" with some statistics to throw around whilst the best alternative solution that anybody can come up with is "just don't vote on it".
Although... whether the percentage of plagiarism on the platform is 2%, 15% or 50% is irrelevant to the person who's content is being stolen. Taking plagiarism and content theft to an extreme, Blurt could have a lawsuit files against them in Canada and be switched off at domain level if they're unable to do anything about it. Pleading "we're decentralised" won't cut it with the lawmakers.
In my opinion, this is far worse than having a little ⚠️ next to a few usernames. A symbol which users can turn off in just 4 clicks of the mouse.
I hope Blurt doesn't turn into a Steem/Hive.
I remember in 2017 there were endless flag wars, with characters like Bernie Sanders. A minority (with power), using similar arguments, abused their power on the platform. I hope history doesn't repeat itself, and no more forks be needed
I get where your coming from but were talking historical data right?
Hive and steemit are two perfect examples. They have presented such data time and time again how much gets stolen even WITH a full fledge team of abuse trackers. They steal thousands and thousands. Even the top witnesses on hive with their dv campaigns.
Go join their discords and ask around for such data. talk to the witness mark. Hes got great tools for such things. but are based on hive.
The point here is that we have seen many examples of how well money gets stolen.
take facebook forexample. litteraly makes millions and millions stealing the content from its own users and selling it to big tech, nsa, cia, etc. EVERY YEAR.
So, could we show the numbers of how much they take? sure but what does showing the numbers have anything to do with proving that theft is moraly, ethically wrong to do?