But then you'd have to advertize it and explain both sp and Scot to users.

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Gonna curate it early. @Whatsup drama should be updated so the people who report dramatic posts early get mire drama.

!dramatoken

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Hey, @whatsup.

Okay, I give. I tried looking it up and the explanation I found went over my head. So, what's a SPORK. And more importantly, how is it so materially different from a hardfork, the discussion of which caused the kerfuffle earlier in the year?

You also said it wouldn't affect Steemit and Freedom's stake, but then you say the STEEM in those accounts could be airdropped into a fund.

So, I'm kind of confused at what we're going for here on that.

Also, doesn't their SP, even if it's not doing anything, help with the reward pool somehow? And why are we all of a sudden totally against Steemit Inc.? I thought you were actually saying people shouldn't be so mad at the new direction Steemit Inc was taking since no harm has been done.

Am I missing something here?

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Honestly! We could actually do this....like tomorrow lol well maybe a little longer, but definitely possible with SCOT bot.

Creating a new coin has a major problem. Steem was mined. Ninja or not, they listed how to mine it on a forum page and that's how it was done then. How do you mine spork? It has to be engineered in a way that's fair and doesn't have abusers coming for the coins. I'm totally for something like this but that's the problem I see. The SEC hates ICO and so does coinbase. The ICO space is so crazy it's easy for decentralized projects to get caught up and removed from the exchanges. Also how do you get this onto exchanges? they often charge 100,000 usd each. That becomes a problem. Then you have coinmarketcap, they want their cut, and so do many others just for a spot on the board.

While feasible I can't help but feel this would be some sort of "edison" power move where we're taking someone elses invention and not giving them any credit where it is due. :/

Seems like imagining a quickly good just happening to steem. What of we can imagine quick good happening to steem, steemit and the community

## It might be about time - now who is "we" again?

If the remaining 10 actual people start learning more from the bots than the bots are learning from flagging each other, WE could have some serious issues to work out with ourselves...

https://steemit.com/teamnz/@frot/whydowedothisshit-s77vf09646

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## Who was "we" again?

Isn't your proposal kind of like an SMT driven platform? I mean, anyone can now create their own website using steem as the backend. As it has been pointed out in the comments there are several hurdles to overcome in order to give value to the token. I say go for it.

I’m game! Love this idea. :)

Naturally, there would be a number of issues to iron out and, as someone mentioned, a number of Steemit employee accounts to blacklist and reallocate funds from, but hell, I love the idea. 

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GET THE SPORK OUTTA HERE! :)

I love this new IDEA, I wanna spork!

This is certainly an interesting idea that I heard you speak about (I think you were there) at the town hall on msp-waves last week. 

One general comment/concern I have for what you propose here and for SCOT tokens and possibly future SMTs is ... is the community just setting up tens to possibly thousands of competitors? How do these tokens help the price of Steem? If the limited amount of crypto buyers out there start buying up SCOT tokens, will this not cause the price of Steem to fall as demand dries up? If witnesses are paid in Steem, how long before this becomes an issue? I know with MIRA the cost will greatly drop, but who wants to be paid in a crypto will falling prices?

These general concerns also apply to the proposal to turn Steemit.com rewards into a new SMT. Aggro (I think it was him) suggested only the witnesses would be paid in Steem but what would the value of that be? If all these SMTs can be converted to fiat directly, I can possibly see these new competitors being a huge weight on the price of Steem. Does my rambling make any sense?

In your proposal here, maybe you don’t care about the value of Steem if the new token also has value.

Maybe I am completely missing the point (I hope I am).

I agree there are many issues that need to be addressed. My personal preference would be to address them without having to do anything too drastic. Sometimes that is not possible though.

Okay, so I've read your post and I've read some replies and my conclusion is...I don't know s#!t! 
I get the concept of what you want to do, but have no idea how it would work. Would this copy still be the Steem coin or would it be a new alt?

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Resteemed and upped for extra eyes.

Just wipe out every POW block and the ongoing effects of them, this ensures distribution issue is resolved entirely. 

Adbot / Bidbot revenue could be used to directly reward stake and shareholders, and allow a float of that setup via the frontend and token market. Allow realworld money to flow into the environment via fiatpayment for advertisement and promotional services potentially improving the situation for all stakeholders. You could allow this to be disbursed in token of choice depending on stake/share, and automated/enforced/computed properly via the smartcontracts.

Could decentralize fully the governance, allowing superblocks and proposal schema, perhaps also allowing the, some, or the multiple paid positions higher up to have a veto privilege to prevent abuse. (decentralizing that power further and allowing voting on it with full transparency via the chain would be ideal) Think of it like transferring authorization but it allows or denies a certain proposal going into the block and funds being allocated automatically.

You can set up disbursement rates and everything within a schema like this. Allowing ongoing funding of projects, or funding to be terminated if a project goes rogue, keeping the power in the hands of the staked users/entities and one would hope, ensuring operations are maintained in good faith from the developmental and service orientated community members/corps/communities.

Hope this all made sense!
Feel free to query for further clarification.