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RE: User Authority - A Better Reputation System With Interesting Applications
Create giveaways all the time and make following mandatory to participate. Can you cheat the system like this?
Create giveaways all the time and make following mandatory to participate. Can you cheat the system like this?
Good question! Yes, and no.
Yes => in theory it would be possible to buy follows in order to increase your own UA (albeit pretty costly to do so).
but...
No => there are multiple scenarios in which that would prove to be counter-productive. For example:
depending on the entire follow matrix of Steem, it is possible that by following account X, your own UA decreases, so that give-away could be costly.
your own UA depends to a large extent of who follows you. It's possible that receiving 50,000 low-UA follows accumulate to the same score as 1 high-UA follow. Losing that one high-UA follow because of "follow-selling" could lower your UA score as a net result
PS: Built into the UA algorithm are damping factors! Those are mathematical tricks to tune the overall UA distribution, when needed.