"Abuse" the DT system, I think these words are getting quite meaningless and getting old..
It's an algorithm, how do you abuse an algorithm? It's not like it has a clutch to burn out..
This would have been true if the existence of the trust system was based on consensus but this is not the case, this isn't
BTC blockchain, this forum has admin/s with special privileges therefore it's no longer based on consensus, theymos alone can ban anyone, he can change the algorithm, he can pretty much do anything he wants, and he did set some guideline for the usage of the trust system. if somehow the bad actors become the majority and the trust system doesn't go in the way he wants - he can just change it all together at any given second.
- As stated below, I also reported that user’s shitpost. My report was marked as “Good”; and as you can verify for yourself, the post is gone. For you see: I do this and that, not this instead of that. What a difficult concept!
- As stated below, this occurred in the tech forum. Spammy shitposters SHALL NOT invade the tech forum. nullius says so. You wouldn’t understand.
If you know reporting works what is the point of negative feedback then? as far as I can see, we have a problem (spam) and a solution (report) and this seems to me like (a problem solved), so where does the feedback fit in old wisdom which states "if there is no problem, don't create one"?.
Tagging spammers won't send them away, they probably don't even look at their own feedback, all it does is devalue the trust system, when almost everyone has red/negative feedback on their trust page, that feedback becomes something normal, hard to notice, and pretty much useless.