Today I delegated Steem Power
250 SP to @steem-ua.
Lost my voting percentage slider, but hardly used it anyway.
Still a 1 cent vote.
It is easy to be critical. It is quite a challenge though to offer a working alternative. Sure, voting bots took over trending, like it is an advertising page. It can even give a somewhat distorted impression about Steem. It fits perfectly within the Social Media Platform on a Blockchain. And the freedom of expression is still there. Which is quite a nice thing to have actually. Few platforms are truly free and open like Steem. But there is always room for improvement.
And when some change is wanted, to benefit individuals and the community at the same time, the best way to go about it is doing so from the outside. As the inner circle of any system, most of the time, will be quite conservative about it. Not that they would be against any change being made to the core of a system, but why do so if it already benefits them? To put it in another way: "Never change a winning team." Well, that is if one is part of that particular team.
In that case, which is even understandable to some level, any big change to a system, being suggested from the outside, will be considered, but probably also dismissed. The great thing about Steem though is that it offers all kinds of tools to create an alternative build upon its own blockchain motor. No need to fork it off, just create something awesome that interacts with it and shows proof that is actually works. And who knows it then might even get implemented, more or less, in the upcoming hardfork 21.
A different approach.
Make the Steem experience better, for individuals and the community as a whole. And I'm convinced the Smart Media Tokens {SMT} are part of that proces. March 23rd 2019 still seems so far away, really looking forward to it. But there is more, like a community driven project like Steem User Authority {UA} proves. It is a different approach to the voting system, that also gives small accounts a chance. That will show good content, opposed to self sponsoring bidbot advertisment on trending.
And the beauty of it is that they both can excist. Maybe even inspire the Steem developers to take note and look for a way to implement the User Authority {UA} into the core of Steem. Today I did delegate 250 Steem Power {SP} for the first time. And I did so to @steem-ua. This means my vote will weight in less and my voting percentage slider will be gone, but I think Steem UA is something that really could be a game-changer.
Steem on!
Steem User Authority
The brandmark of @steem-ua.
Steem UA resource
Website - https://steem-ua.com
Your UA score - https://v2.steemconnect.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=steem-ua.app&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fsteem-ua.com%3A5000%2Fauth&scope=login
I also did delegate to it, but only 100SP. For the moment it is rewarding. I already received 3 upvotes from them with a combined value of $0.91. So I can't complain.
The bad thing about it, is that you do need to delegate otherwise you would be left out in the dark. I know that there are programs to support the ones who can't delegate enough SP, but still it looks like a case of join them or see other taking a huge chunk of the reward pool!
But like you wrote, at least a project which is trying to snoop away delegations to bid bots, but the main delegators to bid bots aren't active on steem anymore, they just stop by once in a while to claim their rewards!
If I remember correctly Steem-UA does also support those who do not have delegated SP to the project. As the calculated UA value is independend from from wheter one delegates Steem Power or not.
It just started so I will watch it develope further with much interest. And it could a promising system to make a real change to the extreme reward pool draining done by some accounts.
This could be something that really creates a change for the good.
Indeed it could change things for the better!
The do have hunters/curators who can put post forward which will get an steem-ua upvote! But then you have to be discovered and that's not easy. For sure if you do write about a not so common niche!
Your project is very interesting . Inspirable post my friend @oaldamster
You inspired me to delegate 250. This project seems very interesting.
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