This should not be dismissed. If Peeple have something at stake they will act better. In an anonymous environment, that something can't always be reputation. If 75% of the community agreed someone was spamming, then their small stake could be burnt.

HODLing everything is playing the short game. The long game is showing the world that what you're "hodling" is capable of being awesome... which requires use...

Lots of people need to *see* - they don't have infinite imaginations.

User interfaces def need improvement though.

This is right. Especially on the difficulty of programming front. Let people earn money for identifying spammers and backing legit users.... but it would need some serious money behind it to prevent censorship, wouldn't it. Spam is a little subjective as it is, also.

Hey @Plumber86 - I've been following your work adventures when you post them. If we ever meet, I've got some of my own plumbing stories to tell!

All is well on my end. Work has been brutal here too. Keep peeping!

As long as all verifications and reputations are on-chian - this could certainly be another viable tool for combating spam.

I love it too! I do!

I agree with most of your thoughts. I sincerely appreciate all the time you have taken coming up with solutions. Spam bots are going to be an issue. They're hard to fix apparently... micro fees are a tool we have... all I'm saying.

Keep on Peepin!

Me too! I'm not arguing against getting creative with lowering costs. I'm just reminding that some costs are good - they contribute to thoughtful behavior and deter spam.

If the backend is wide open with no limits - seems like only the frontend users will have rules. Not ideal.

Usage costs can deter spam - not sure anything can stop it completely. But if it costs a constant .01 to peep - at least it costs *something*. As it stands, without backend limits in place - I guess frontends imposing costs will just force the spammers to bypass the frontends.

I can agree with this 100% - sooner things go on chain the better.

As for costs - subscriptions and one-off fees might not be the "fairest" solution or the best deterrent of spam. Somehow being tied to usage seems ideal... so at least infinite abuse will be cost prohibitive.

I think another option is to fix/set the price of peeping from the frontend directly, and then the platform can carry on with @abcoathup's idea.

Any of those options are better than *free* if you want a thoughtful social media platform with less spam. Just thinking out loud...

Mass adoption of a platform /unlike/ what already exists is the goal. Permanence is a great feature. But having some (even very small) costs to deter spam is another great feature, imho. If the frontend will consider paying all costs, I'm saying reconsider - just lower the cost.

Not sure why that image shows up in the preview. Hmmm... investigating.

Can the Peepeth crowd help me expand my Resources page? What's your favorite crypto resource? Why?

If I already have it listed, maybe just give it a thumbs up?

Thanks in advance for helping me to help people!

https://www.callmegwei.com/crypto-resources/

If the frontend pays to save transactions to the blockchain every 5 minutes (as long as there are x number of peeps). Then, the next day, maybe the users who peeped should be responsible for paying their share of the costs before they can peep again.

Costs are a feature.

@abcoathup @bevan @NateStipe Random thoughts.

Re: the smart contract backend not being able to limit the batch size, thus opening the platform to a "fire-hose" of spam despite Peepeth's frontend goals, etc... seems less than ideal, imho.

Less costs is great - no cost is not.

Did he peep about publishing this? He deserves some ensō!

Agree.

This is an issue that manifests itself when the Ethereum network gets congested. A month or two ago you could save a batch of peeps for less than a cent USD. A (temporary) countermeasure could be @Bevan raising the batch size...lots of dApps don't have such flexibility.

Experts?! Oh, no... I just learn out loud. ;-)

Well, thanks! Took me a month or two of brainstorming names before I settled on CallMeGwei. I do get some negative feedback about it on occasion... so it's nice to hear something positive.

Love to hear this! Inspiring and exciting!

Wishing you continued success.

Seriously, amazing. A little scary if this is in the hands of a single organization, but I'm sure it's just incentive for more innovation outside of Google. Fingers crossed. Exciting times.

Look at @yaniv go! (At least) TWO awesome decisions in the same day!

Welcome.

This isn't even trivial to do right now in MetaMask... is it? I've had to do this before as well and it feels like a frustrating "bug" when it's necessary.

What would this gas abstraction look like? I'm not convinced DApp services paying the gas is ideal either... thoughts?

Thanks for sharing! Will heed your warning this summer!

Hey! Maybe, that's a good question to post over on the @cent beta? You know... as a business expense? 🤔

Enso is like a "super like" - you can only give it to one peep in a 24 hours period. It's scarce. It's less costly than tipping, but also more more limited. Enso is a way to reward a touching/insightful/awesome peep. Use it thoughtfully. :-)

As @jvck pointed out, the wording there is a little confusing. The points are only for things your referrals did.

The points are just for fun, anyway. :-)

@Bevan

@Zanzi is jesting. 🤓

I have to step on the soapbox for any bystanders reading. The space needs lots of people to provide insight about what "regular" users find confusing, interesting, frustrating, etc. Regular users span the whole gamut of IQs. Never mind your IQ! 😜

Lol. Thanks @pluma ;-)

Offline work.... it's ok. Being involved in the crypto-space full time is the dream. Taking steps to make that my reality.

Very much looking forward to writing again. And, of course, peeping.

Hey! Thanks @bob. Missed you too! Had to do some offline work (oh, the pain). Back online now and have a lot of catching up to do...

I'm here! Thanks for caring, Peeple. Still trying to be able to write for my site full time, but in the meantime - I do have to travel/work every now and again. I'm an extraordinarily poor multitasker.

I have a lot of catching up to do around here and on my site! Glad to be back

#lkie

We've already won. Will just take the rest of the world a little while to catch up. The future is decentralized.

Welcome.

#lkie Thanks for sharing this @james

@child You're in very good company here. Many of us are very aware of this opportunity. We'll make it happen together. No doubt in my mind. #BlockchainStrong

#lkie

Been away from internet a while and finding myself wondering about Peepeth. Not in the way I'd normally worry about Twitter... but actually worried I might miss some interesting conversations.

And with 1k interesting Peeple... let me tell you... it takes a while to catch up!

I did too. More the merrier. He posted a link to his memo posts.

He'll be blown away with the UX of Peepeth if he's liking memo.

Thanks for sharing this!

Did you fill him in?!

This is simplified, but I tried to take the life of a 7 year old and imagine what blockchain might look like in that environment where paper, pencil and candy are on hand. The bit about when/how you get the candy is a little distorted, but I think the main ideas are all there.

5) Later, it won't matter who is first to solve the math problem. The student will bet among themselves (PoS) who got the tally and finalizing code right. Anyone who got it wrong will lose their bet. Everyone else gets the "candy tax" given by those without notebooks transacting.

4) Since everyone is operating by the same rules, with the same notebooks (protocols) - everyone should always be on the same page with the same results. In case of a discrepancy, everyone goes with what the majority has calculated and carries on.

3) You protect that block from alteration by "sealing" it with a method everyone agrees on and stamping it with a code determined by that process (hash). Most important rule is that you must take into account the code from the last bundle (chain).

2) Because only candy earned in school should count in your school transactions, you add some protections to your ledgers to prevent tampering. At the end of every recess everyone with a notebook bundles all the recorded candy transactions into a group for the day (block).

1) You and your friends get candy when you are first to solve a math problem really quickly - that's mining (PoW). You all keep track of EVERY candy transfer via your notebooks (distributed ledgers) for everyone in the school (network).

Your in good company then - we're all excited!

Welcome!

Looks to me you buidl like crazy! You've got all kinds of cool projects going on! Thank you for making stuff.

When I look at all the disruptive things being built, I can't imagine selling. So, to answer your original question: hodl.

Market timing isn't a thing, is it?

Beautiful resource. Thanks for sharing!

Hmmm.... Doesn't the answer kinda hinge on your time horizon?

Glad there's the world outside of trading where building/creating is a path to making value.

I wrote a piece during one of the last crashes:

https://www.callmegwei.com/2018/02/02/crypto-the-sky-is-falling

If you could borrow an ensō from tomorrow to use today, would you do it?

#peeplosophy