I don't know if the title makes sense, but since I likely roped some of you into voting a few weeks back, if you haven't heard, Steemit won the Social network of the Year at the Noonies, hosted by Hacker Noon.
However this is tainted meat:
So far, every one of these competitions that has come about has suffered from a host of voting problems and I wonder - why? Perhaps they should use an immutable blockchain with private keys for their voting mechanisms. I wonder where they could find one...
What would be an interesting service to create on Steem is an out-of-the-box solution that any website could use to run a poll without having to actually be on Steem to vote. This could use numerous verification and sign in methods, and perhaps could utilize NFTs as some kind of vote marker. Whatever it is, there should be a solution found that can better verify vote count accuracy without having to jump through too many hoops.
It would also be interesting to be able to use a masked digital avatar of some kind that could be verified as human but the verification only reside locally but only one can be registered at a time in something like Keychain. This way, this avatar could be used for online activity and keep anonymity while still being classed an individual human.
I suspect that it would have to be able to verify an already verified document of some kind like a valid drivers licence locally, or perhaps since most phones have a fingerprint scanner, an app could scan a fingerprint and check the verification against the one stored in the phone to unlock it. I dunno.
It would be pretty interesting for websites to be able to implement this kind of mechanism as it would reduce chance of multiple votes as well as bot voting systems. This application could then run on the Steem blockchain and be utilized by non-blockchained websites as a plug-in for blockchain ledger capabilities.
I think that there will be a growing number of uses for blockchain integration into websites for things like account creation, management and voting rights and in time, these could be used as verification mechanisms also.
Anyway, I am too tired and ill to think too much more about it now, but I am glad that Steemit made it to the top of the list, but it is a pity that the number of voters is so low.
At least for now, Steemit can claim to have won a Noonie.
Thanks to all those who took the 10 seconds to vote.
Taraz
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