Self-Purchasing Posts to Artificially Inflate Price - We Need Clarity

Hey BANTER!

I wanted to talk about an issue I see more and more prevalent in the BBS communities:

Self-purchasing already owned posts in order to artificially inflate the value.

Here's a post that did just that in order to instantly hit the 'Hot' page for higher relevancy.

Let's take a look at the 'Activity' to see how many purchases were made organically vs artificially

In the above photo, you can see a user purchasing his own post CONSECUTIVELY in order to inflate the starting price of the post. This causes the post to be immediately lifted to 'Hot' if enough is spent to increase the starting price.

This opens up a problem with content curation though, users who have established balances can simply 'vote up' or purchase their own post over and over again in order to establish higher relevancy and engagement with said post.

This however goes completely against the concept of community content curation, as users with bigger wallets can simply purchase their own post to establish higher visibility. 

@CryptoSovereign not trying to call you out specifically on this haha, just was the first example that popped up for me.

My point being from this, is that we need some clarity on whether or not this is an acceptable practice in the eyes of BBS Network. The DAO will have the ability to blacklist BBS boards who engage in fraudulent activity, and manipulation of post visibility and purchasing could be construed as fraudulent activity depending on how BBS Network views it.

In my opinion, BBS Network should just completely block the ability to purchase a post if you already own it. I believe that's on the list of their things to do, as the METABBS board has specifically hidden posts because of this before.

It would be great if we could get some clarity on this from admin users or the devs!

I would personally recommend admins of boards ban this kind of behavior as it promotes an unhealthy content curation system.

EDIT:
To be 100% clear, I see no issue with owning your own published post. The issue I'm trying to draw attention to is only CONSECUTIVELY purchasing ALREADY OWNED posts in order to inflate the value.