RE: Some Last Words in the old before we start a new year!
I don't know why you feel the need to call them idiots, but my assessment of this is, yes - they absolutely do not understand it. And it's not just them. You and others don't appear to understand it either.
I have read and heard the arguments over the past week about SteemSports, "vote-buying," "manipulation of the rewards pool," how "unfair" distribution is, how "unfair" curation rewards are, how auto-votes and trails are "abuse and manipulation," etc.
What I have not seen or heard from any of you is an understanding of how this system actually works - as it is actually designed to work. All I continue to see and hear are arguments about how it needs to be changed because of the actions of large stakeholders and because voting is incentivized...which is the entire point of this platform.
...are you taking us for fools?
Well, until you guys actually comprehend this critical aspect of Steemit (stake-weighted voting and incentives), your constant complaints about "unfairness" and "inequality" will fall on deaf ears. These complaints will also continue to fall on the ears of new users who understand less about the platform than you do (as impossible as that may seem) and will ultimately skew their perception of how this platform is designed and functions - which will only serve to further skew their expectations, leaving them frustrated and sending them back to their previous social media habits.
Furthermore, as you continue to make fools of yourselves and flag other content that you do not prefer (we can include your subjective value judgments as well), you will be less likely to see that support that you so badly crave from the more influential users. The more you denigrate those with the influence to make a difference, the closer you come to self-fulfilling the prophecy about your "quality" content not receiving the rewards that you demand.
My question to you and others is this:
What is your end game?
All of these complaints...but what do you propose we do about stake-weighted voting and incentivized curation? That's the heart of all of these arguments. How do you propose this gets "fixed" so that every user can earn "equally" or "fairly?" And why should that even be a goal in the first place?
You are the only person coming to steemspeak to defend your abusive vote buying toy. Next time, bring your friends and get yourselves some mics so we can talk this out like adults.
First of all, I have no need to defend it. It's not "abuse" and it's not "vote-buying."
Secondly, if I was defending it, I certainly wouldn't feel the need to defend it in SteemSpeak. You guys have proven repeatedly that you do not understand this platform.
If you think whining and complaining all day long about content preferences and subjective value is how "adults" work things out, you're sorely mistaken.