I almost got flagged on SteemLeo today. It was a close call. One user suggested they should flag my account because I upvoted a post with the tag "steemleo" which didn't talk about investing at all.
Except that I didn't even see this post. It was done through Steemdunk autovote service where you can set a number of authors and automatically upvote their posts. You can select the number of posts per day to upvote, vote percentage and the timing.
I selected 1 post per day with 100 percent voting power and after 15 minutes delay for this user. And everything might have been fine but this user had palnet and steemleo tags. So I automatically upvoted it on these platforms as well with my PAL Power and LEO Power.
We all know that PALnet allows all kinds of posts of their platform but SteemLeo is only for content related to investing. Everthing is fine until someone abuses the tag "steemleo" and posts a completely unrelated content there. And that's what happened.
So because I hold over 50k LEO Power, my upvote is worth a lot and I have to use my power responsibly.
So after this warning I had removed my upvote for this post, wrote an explanation of what happened in the comment, I think the user who misused steemleo tag removed the unrelated content from the post and this was the end of it.
But it got me thinking about my current curation strategy and if it needs readjusting to current platform conditions.
You see I have a number of Steemians set on autovote and the rest of curation I do manually.
Plus I upvote all the entries of my 2 contests (Pinky and Spiky Drawing Contest and Secrets of Organ Playing Contest).
I also selvote on several of my own posts per day because I need generate 60 STEEM per week for @deemarshall's Artstorm contest donations and prizes for @laputis and my own contests.
The result is that my voting power is constantly below 70 percent and sometimes below 60 percent.
It's far from ideal but I can live with that. What I could not live with is getting flagged for upvoting abusive posts with misleading tags.
I'm a large stake holder of Steem Power, PAL Power and LEO Power. All 3 platforms have their tokens and rewards distributing for curation. Out of these 3 only SteemLeo limits content to investing. But what happens when I upvote a post tagged with palnet and steemleo and the user intentionally or unintentionally abuses steemleo tag?
Community will most definitely pick up abuse and will not only want to flag such a post but probably the accounts which gave the biggest upvote. In this case it was me (even though I was not even aware that this post exists).
This is just the beginning of tokenisation of the Steem blockchain. There are several more communities which offer their native tokens as rewards for specialized content.
What happens if I become a stake holder on these platforms as well? What happens when there are many other communities with different tokens. I realize we will soon run out of spaces for tags but the potential for abuse goes up with each tokenized tag.
So I'm thinking to limiting my Steemdunk autoves only to a few authors whom I really trust won't abuse tokenized tags.
What do you think? Any other suggestions?
