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RE: Clarification for some people RE: Flag vs Down Vote
If the "power of the masses" cannot counter a 1/10 then it cannot counter the whales in whatever way, except a "socialist" one account one vote policy. Which would mean thousands of bots just voting after one main account.
With the current curve the big whales are more powerful than thousands of smaller users. Perhaps 10s of thousands. It depends upon what the average power of the smaller users is.
With the new curve they are talking about (linear) then the difference is not as huge... but it is still bigger than 10x.
Take for example... Bernie... he is said to wield generally around 1.5 million steem power.
I am not quite to 15,000 steem power and I am not a smaller person. That means he is currently on a LINEAR curve 100x more powerful than me. It would take 100 of me to counter him. Currently we have the exponential curve so the difference is FAR larger than this. Thousands of me could not counter him at the moment.
You are at about 1082 (almost) at the time I write this. Bernie with delegated power from his various accounts is just shy of 1.5 million as I write this. That makes him a little over 1386 times as powerful as you.
Reduce that by a 10th and he is still 138.6 times more powerful.
The 10th sounds good until you start doing the math and see just how vast the power differences actually are.