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RE: Account Based Voting is a Terrible Idea for STEEM
So maybe the registered steemit user numbers will double or even quadruple, but actually they would be fake numbers- I guess it would look good for steemit on graphs?
It could. It would depend on what kind of ROI spammers could get out of the system.
There is a cost to running a spam operation. You can buy verified Facebook and Twitter accounts for something like 1 USD a piece. Then there are ongoing costs like proxies and vps services. It’s not a huge cost though.
So if the reward of getting to the top of trending or hot outweighs the costs, then they have an economic incentive to do it.