ah man....its such a drag really. I can see how difficult a situation this is. We are all desperate to move away from censorship and centralisation, but we dont want to be inundated with spam, scam, and copyclam (you heard it here first!).
I'm just wondering whether you could have bins of content so that stuff isnt muted or made invisible, but just put in to the junk folder as it were, so that people can still browse it (there can even be trending junk!). If there was a high senate deciding which bins certain content goes in to...I mean its still a lot of power, but its like a curation job.
Ooo, and maybe the public get to label things as a part of the voting system. So for every content bin that gets created theres an extra option in the voting. Or maybe just the downvoting?
So when you downvote, theres a mandatory second step which is to categorize the downvote: Junk, Plagiarism, Negativity etc.
This way, a tribe can still publish articles that negatively impact its reputation, but have them bunched together in an alternative feed. That way at least users can choose when to engage in more critical conversation. It could be seen as a bold move on the part of any community to wear its criticism on its sleeve like that... I don't know, maybe Im just barking up a useless tree.....


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very solid and well balanced read!  It's easy to 'hate' on whales but people should remember without them what exactly is holding things up?   A more robust "middle class" seems to be sorta emerging which requires people having some sort of faith if not in some of the aspects but in the people involved themselves.
I hope it doesn't get too draconian,  that's not good for biz imho.
@onealfa has his stake and can do what he wants with it as can all of us,   I really think if I have the patience I need to write a super long post about DPOS or maybe just let people figure it out on their own. :)
take care and good piece!
axey



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Same old story with every ProofOfBrain tribe. Starting to make me feel like the Proof Of Brain concept if flawed because it's a human aspect thus very flawed. Doesn't mean great things can't come from it though. The rise and fall of POB coming soon?

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For sure we should all move on. That's the best thing to do in this case. But we should always consider to not lose trust from both sides. I wrote a post about that, I think you will like it. Check that here : [Proof of Trust](https://www.proofofbrain.io/hive-190212/@clixmoney/the-trust-is-hard-to-win-and-easy-to-lose-proof-of-trust)



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Leofinance(noleo4u) has over 500 people on the mute list. But does anyone care? no one even says anything. I think the tribes have to think about improving the SEO of the posts and survive with ads or another model... Maybe improve organization... Look at noise.cash, in a short time it managed to become popular. 

Look at Leo Finance, you go in there thinking you'll find the latest news from the cryptocurrency market, but you only find people giving their opinion... Maybe because everyone who posts news is said to be plagiarist (all newspapers are).

I'm more google, facebook, twitter... Profiting from all the shit.

I believe the POB never created a constitution, so mute someone depends on the owner of the community. 

/@dan/why-every-blockchain-needs-a-constitution

I believe a constitution should be created and voted on by stakeholders to be fair to everyone. 

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Thanks for the enlightenment. Really appreciated



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If they want to mute people, I think they should be able to but the reasoning here is off. Muting someone for downvoting someone else that receives a large POB estimated reward is why downvotes were added so i dont agree with this. 

I think muting should be used to stop spammers, scammers, trolls and people that copy/paste content.   

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I don't know about this post. I can understand the point of view but there are many people who are on mute lists for communities. I believe I have been muted and removed from some upvotes. That is that. It seems when the rules are flipped on whales people run to the whales defence. 

I do feel for Az, I am not his biggest fan and I do believe he goes about things in not the right way but he does mean well. He does try to ensure some form of accountability. Do I think he gets it right all the time? No. 

I do believe his manoeuvre to acquire PoB and remove PoB votes is also a bad move. Posting about it stating PoB is not a safe investment also a bad move because he has me muted on a topic he got wrong with me (my opinion) 

Furthermore, @proofofbrainio main account was smashed into oblivion further proving that the biggest threat are the whales. They are the central authority. So who keeps them in check when they step over the line? 

There are no safeguards for anyone. 



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Nice job, well done💯
Rebloged and promoted it, burning my 12 liquid LEO.
# 💥Boom!💥

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You are a good writer
Your post is reblogged and upvoted by me. It is a good post. Thank you  @allcapsonezero



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Well, in the last days I changed the way I see POB, and some things that happened contributed for it. I share some of the views of this post, I think is dangerous that some rules are being put aside when it's convenient, I would say it's sad when certain posts and content, with little real value, not following rules(formating, coerence, having a brain that seeks the truth and not only ideological bias) are being hugely suported against better content with low support.

I think that is the long run can put a limit to what is possible to happen here, I think that is necessary to talk about that, but not with FUD or spreading fear saying that the sky is already fallen, I think it's possible to heal the project and put it again in the tracks... if there is will for do that, I think its possible, but if there is no will, well... so far, so good.



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I haven't followed the situation that closely as I want to stay out of drama. The truth is that POB isn't the first tribe to mute someone. This might be the first MUTE from a tribe owner that has got  high level attention. I think the issue here is some peoples vision of what a TRIBE is. To me a TRIBE is a community and the creator of that community will decide in what direction to take the tribe. If onlookers like what they see they can invest, if they don't then there's plenty of other tribes that might better suit said persons interests. 

Is the MUTE warranted in this particilar situation, that's up to every individual to decide for themselves. The only reason I am even slightly paying attention to this drama is because I recently made a decision to post most my created content from the POB frontend. For now I will continue to do so but as I originally decided I will look at all things POB including my blog success while using the POB frontend  and reassses my decision within the upcoming weeks/months.



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Hello.  I'm just wondering if you still feel the same way:
>No. Under no circumstances. If two users want to downvote each other and fight about reward distribution with their stake, they can go ahead and do it. This is my opinion on the matter.

I've recommended it for users that plagiarize multiple times on POB.  They neither respond back to my comments or refuse to acknowledge the error despite the evidence presented.  Other issues I've found to date:

- multiple counts of plagiarism
- reposting deleted posts
- reposting artwork from other authors

There aren't a lot of people looking for this on POB.  There is no way for me to reduce the number of times this occurs outside of a mute.



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I'm keeping an eye on this unnecessary chaos that is going on, and I confess that the direction Pob has been taking discourages me, funny how such a good project can be so fragile due to the simple lack of organization and mature governance. I hope this all settles down, it's pretty clear that mutating a user is wrong and not ideal,
as well as the way in which these curatorships have been distributed is not ideal.



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