The suggestion produces practically universal anger. Folks that want to get a big fat updoot don't want whales to be incentivized to spread their VP out more, and whales don't want to lose their ROI. Stinc and the top witnesses serve the whales, so do what they want. Almost no one both understands that turning Steemit into an automated rewards pool mining operation with undertones of social media degrades society, and cares.

People generally don't understand that society is much more than an economy, and there are much more profitable things than profit, as they tend to take all the most important things for granted, and spend all their time, attention, and effort pursuing emuneration in RL, and find it natural to do here, too.

I don't spend any time on profit. All I need is enough to pay bills, which for me are <$500/month, which I can make in a couple days working. This allows me to spend my mental effort on substantive matters: family, friends, society - the things that make life worth living.

I am pretty sure this thing won't be fixed. Fortunately, there are other interfaces to the blockchain, and other blockchains. I reckon that folks with the chops will take the good parts and replicate them elsewhere (the code for the blockchain is FOSS) and sooner or later, someone will get it right.

It can be frustrating to understand these things, and not see everyone agreeing. I give up my expectations, and just go with the flow, while speaking the truth I understand, regardless of whether folks agree with me or not.

I don't care unless they can show me where I'm wrong, and then I leap at the chance to become right =p