RE: My horrible first experience with Steemit & ideas on how to fix it.
BTW, i don't think any of your three ideas would work as written.
The problem with this is that there are a lot of accounts created just to spam. Yes, it would help people like you, but it would for every matthewDC, there would be 500 people spamming 40 streaming links each.
The problem with this is that nothing that works through an absolute number of flags/votes is ever going to fly. Everything has to be weighted in SP, and regardless of what someone thinks of the user who flagged you (he has made many regrettable decisions), 3000SP is too much to ignore completely.
The problem with this is the level of noise it would entail. There are a lot of spammers just looking to "get lucky" with a repost or a link. You have to keep in mind that for every good post you would preserve this way, there are X number of spam posts that you would also preserve. X is probably bigger than you think now, and will only grow as the platform becomes more successful (if, in fact, that is what happens)
Thanks for the constructive feedback. A lot of you probably have more experience with the inner workings of the network and exactly how steem power works right now, so I was hoping for this type of conversation. I'm still wrapping my head around how some of the influence is calculated.
Part of the issue is, I don't think I was quite aware of the amount of spam the system has been seeing. From the comments here, it sounds like it has been a real issue. I've seen the streaming links for football games and have to admit, it IS pretty annoying. So I wouldn't want any changes that would make it more enticing for them to stick around and bring their friends.
Thanks for reading and for sharing your honest opinion. It's helping me to learn more about the climate here and some of the issues.