Am I the only one who doesn't really worry about this just yet?
Theymos said this:
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But if it looks like a "scammer's cartel" is forming, then I'd change the criteria to fix it. For example, one obvious weak point is that you can try to push an infinite number of people into DT1 by trusting as many people as you want; one way to try to fix this would be to take only a fixed-size random subset of everyone's trust list into account, perhaps with the size determined by the truster's merit.
This part has been implemented already, DT1 "voting power" is determined by Merit.
But for now I am very much inclined to just let it roll for a while and see exactly where the cracks appear.
Theymos wants to see where this ends up, if it goes south, he'll adjust things. I'm very curious to see under which conditions the community can be more or less self-regulating when it comes to DT-power.
This summarizes it nicely:
I feel that we are all part of Theymos "ant-farm " experiment.
Don't forget: the DT1-update isn't automated yet, theymos has to manually run it. I can only assume he'll check for extreme abuse before pushing the update live.
This seems like a good place to promote
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