The easy solution is to make the majority of users change their mindsets. Make them stop thinking of STEEM as a way to make money. Educating them about the original purpose of rewarding the largest number of real humans, and being generous with your own upvotes when you make a real human connection.
It might have worked at the early beginning, as the circle of Steem users and those having stake was fairly small - but over time more and more people come together; and expecting everyone to act in the best interest of the platform, won't work. That's wishful thinking and won't happen.
There need to be rules, implemented on the blockchain level and the incentives have to be correct.
And I'm not sure how often I've said, but I gladly say it again: I don't have any problems with Smartsteem.com as promotion-service becoming redundant. But only if the system is fixed and self-voting, circle-voting is less effective than voting on good content. If that happens, people will automatically start to do the correct thing.
@therealwolf, everybody should act in the best way for her/himself. That's is what the concept of the free market says.
So, noone has the right to blame the individuals/the Steemians. It simply means that the ecosystem is economically not viable. So, it is the problem of the Steem Blockchain, not of the individuals.
But, what I have noticed recently is that many witnesses and dApps developers has started to panic. So, it means the ecosystem is quite shaky. And from a point of view of a small investor it is not the best stuff to see/observe. But, anyway! Let's wait and see what will happen.
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What will happen is that those that can make happen will. If you can make happen what you want, it is certainly better to act and make it happen.
Still, I am waiting for them as can to do, as I reckon most of us are, since I am incompetent to do.
Thanks!
That's the vision of @steemflagrewards and @flagawhale, to go after circlejerkers in the low and the high places and thus nerf the reward capability.
We simply do not have the stake to downvote all the abuse out there. We have plenty of people but we have to wait for our bots voting Mana to recharge at a measly 14k SP.
You've assisted us in blacklisting abusers from your bot and making @smartsteem better. I hope this becomes a two way street as I would hope to reward SFR flaggers more appropriately especially since many are likely taking flags from your former customers.
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Implement whitelist with users who are only posting good quality content. That would be a step forward. Simple but effective, something that @ocdb does.
I know that a lot of us can see the bigger picture, that helping everyone keeps it healthy for the majority, but I agree, there are always going to be some who abuse the system and leave a desolate landscape behind, like any exploitative-extractive industry does.
I don't have an ultimate solution, but what if flags were changed so they they were decoupled from SP? Everyone's flag is equal in weight. Then the damage is decided by HOW MANY people flag instead of one whale being able to decimate someone they don't like, minnows being afraid of retaliation, true abusers being taken down by a concensus? I suppose big whales could make a bunch of alts. But if little fish were unafraid to use them, I'd think you'd get a lot more participating in downvoting spam which might balance it out.
It was just an idea that came to me, and I'm not a techie, so there might be something that would make this not work that I don't know.