RE: It's Time For HIVE to Pivot on Anti-Abuse | Focus Group Anyone?
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Please everybody be aware that what is being discussed is the (re-)establishement of a policing body. Maybe this is the only way to get Hive out of the gutters, but will it be Hive then?
Wasn't there an idea of a self-regulating platform? If so, I see two reasons this does not work:
- Extremely uneven distribution of power
- (a culture based) unwillingness of criticism. By this I mean everybody is used to say 'yeah', 'like', 'upvote', but the tradition of the opposite (e.g. downvote) has never been well established.
If nobody could have 1000000x times the power than others (e.g. a cap of 3x, maybe 10x?), and everybody (or many) would participate in both sides of the coin (up and down), we could skip all the ruling.... DONE.
(I am a utopist, but this is what atrracted me to this platform).
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I've been advocating a 1000mv cap on voting.
Not a coded solution, but a voluntary cap on what the most powerful take from the pool.
We had this experiment on steem, as you can imagine the only people that were in favor of it were those without the power to keep it.
When 20 accounts take 50% of what is available to all ~4k of us, there is a power disparity that won't fix itself.
You can't really blame them, we are trapped by crapitalism after all, but we don't have to support them, either.
We could denounce them, but no self respecting sycophant would have that thought occur to them, so here we are, a few voices pushing back and thousands of onlookers not capable of defending themselves from this sort of exploitation.
The more I think/read about it the more I come to this conclusion:
It is time to throw old ideals over board for the sake of reality.
Let's just admit that the experiment of decentralisation has failed, and move on and/or see what we can salvage.
I lost a lot of illusions while reading a book from the 16th century describing the exact dilemma we are facing on Hive (Utopia by Thomas Morus). And I am thankful for each and every illusion that I loose.
Lol, never give up hope, rage against the darkness, is my motto.
Read these two books and let me know how their treatment of crapitalistic math fits with your world view?
https://archive.org/details/ironhee00lond/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/lookingbackward01bellgoog
They will burst some bubbles for you, they did for me.
Thanks for the books, I need brainfeed ;)
I've got dozens, some quite voluminous.
This is short story along the same lines as the other two.
This is an academic treatment of the ideas.