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RE: SteemFlagRewards Policy: Only Delegator / Supporter Flags Will Be Approved
Dear @anthonyadavisii
I just found out about @SteemFlagRewards because of @steevc and I was wondering what are goals of this particular account.
Is main goal of this account to downvote others? I'm just trying to understand idea behind it.
Yours,
Piotr
Hello @crypto.piotr,
Thanks for the inquiry and I'm glad you finally found SFR. Our objectives may be summed up as follows:
Making our blockchain less attractive to those intended to exploit through spam, plagiarism, low-effort vote farming, and other forms of token manipulation. My hope is this will encourage more honest folk to join our platform by dispelling the notion that this is a place where people are able to cheat to win.
Fostering and building a cohesive moderation community and eventually deploying this concept as a service for individuals and businesses interested in deploying their own Steem-based sites with their own customized system. Basically, customer provides the incentive, defines the parameters / requirements and the plan is then executed.
This is the future of SFR and I have been working laying the ground work. What we have currently is as functional reward system for our users that find things that fall within our abuse criteria using our existing system leveraging Discord and a number of other technologies.
This also provides an easy way for users to reduce overall abuse on the platform without having to do the work. We do the work using their delegations to rewards flags and their participation in the flag trail to assist with additional downvotes as well as countering retaliatory flags.
Our users mark the content with their @steemflagrewards mention and indicating the category of abuse it belongs. Then the webhook executes and our moderators will review / approve the flag to receive tokens. Once the user receives tokens, they may use them to boost quality content on the chain. Essentially, flaggers take a risk and our system is designed to compensate them for that.
Please, let me know if you have any questions. Glad to help!
I can not speak for @anthonyadavisii, but I think in a very simple way you understood it right. On a broader horizon: These downvotes are used against scam, spam and all kind of abuse.
It's about removing unearned rewards and persuading people to be less selfish in their actions. We can point you to dozens of accounts who just buy votes or self-vote with practically zero community interaction. They are milking the reward pool. We also act in cases of plagiarism or impersonation.
SFR hands out their tribe tokens to contributors and you can use them to buy votes. I use mine to buy votes for others who deserve more. I can find plenty of great posts that make cents whilst those with the right friends can make dollars for a selfie :)