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RE: Steem is not a blogging platform. Steem is an ad-hoc public and transparent corporation. Let me explain...
Well, people like games. When a person clik vote button on reddit, he knows that his voice matters. On Steemit, if you want give $0.01 with your vote you should lock $1000 in the system for 2 years. Otherwise, you vote means literaly nothing - $0.00. For the newcomers this game seems skewed.
That's because they think it's a democracy, and not a corporate board of stockholders. Here, votes mean money, so that takes it out of the realm of idle amusements and into srs biznes.
If you want to play this kind of game, you would have to go elsewhere to look for it. There is hidden, underlying features to the structure of Steem that people are only just starting to catch on what they are. There is more than enough other places where this kind of childish games can be played.
This is why I made this post, to bring it to people's attention. I think if people more generally understood the potential power of this platform, they would also understand why votes are weighted by how much you have vested in the platform.
Steem is a vehicle for massive economic empowerment, and in my opinion, is going to radically change how people see cryptographic distributed database systems. This rewrites the entire ruleset of business.