RE: Problem with the experiment... @smooth, I don't believe this was your intention
Unfortunately this is the first time I have felt compelled to jump ship to another platform over some experimental bullshit. I don't really post for the money and the platform isn't all that large. Maybe I should just use medium instead. The conflict I have is that I support crypto decentralization for the enrichment of humanity, but all of these whale games are about control and not allowing free market principles to play out as they should. Opinions are like assholes and everyone has them, but what the fuck is the purpose of invalidating other's work to enrich a community. I am pretty disgusted that 2 posts I had spent almost four hours on with a little over 100 votes COMBINED got flagged because someone didn't think someone else approving of my material. I was looking at maybe a dollar an hour for the time I put in which is really irrelevant because I was 100% boosting, but apparently those posts should only be worth thirty cents each because of one persons opinion. It's pretty fucking annoying.
I agree. The code for the blockchain tells us what the rules are. If there are unforeseen negative consequences, the reasonable response would be to adjust the code. And in that sense most users have agreed that the n^2 algorithm needs to be changed. However, Steemit Inc. decided not to go forward with a more linear curve in the next hard fork.
So, instead of getting an actual change to the code - which would actually resolve some of the major issues with voting/rewards - we get a half-cocked "experiment" by those who don't control the blockchain. It appears to me that one bad decision by Steemit Inc. has simply led to another bad decision by those who are not Steemit Inc. in an attempt to pacify some users who constantly squawk about "not having enough influence." But the solution is not to pile onto bad ideas. The proper solution would be to pressure the powers that be to make the best decisions - not give them an "out" while simultaneously irritating many of the remaining active users on the platform.
I don't understand this either. The whole notion of "everyone needs to be rewarded" isn't a "free market" or even a social media concept. The purpose of this platform regarding content and the purpose of social media in general is to raise certain posts over others based on what is subjectively "good" according to the collective evaluation of the community...or what we call "popularity." Seeking more equal results or essentially punishing those who have put in the work to become "popular" is anti-social (in the social media context).
What this "experiment" is saying is that, if you have done well at creating content and/or networking to build your audience and have consequently attracted larger stakeholders who value your work, you will now be penalized for it. This is not a positive message to send.
In addition, it is telling those larger investors who have actually bought STEEM (which helps all STEEM holders) and powered up in order to have more influence on the platform that their purchase of STEEM was basically a malinvestment. Their influence will now be negated by people who just don't think they should have such influence. This sends exactly the wrong message to investors...the very people who are needed in order to increase the value of all of our holdings.
In other words - it's a shit "experiment"...and I haven't even touched on the arbitrary nature of all of it and the fact that there are apparently no parameters for the "experimentation."
Well I held over 10k steem on this account at one point and I get a whopping 5 SP by being involved in several high volume curation trains and manually up voting. I also hold about 50,000 steem on Poloniex that I will be dumping now because I honestly don't give a fuck about supporting a platform that can't make decisions for the greater good. I never bitched about all the posts I spent way too much time on and got no recognition. I found different areas to write in and as soon as I started regularly hitting any kind of return on my financial AND more importantly massive time investment I get a giant fuck you for it. So in return I guess I'll show them what an empty kingdom feels like. Have fun with the people screenshotting youtube videos because they can't actually create content or the random cellphone shots of what the fuck ever and my personal favorite the bots making 30 to 50 bucks a post. I'll go not make any money and have my content ignored by larger audiences.
Seems copy paste for 2 mints is the time worth to spend in steem .................