RE: Loving the Experiment. Bought more STEEM.
I agree.
I think people forget that we are still in beta and now is actually the time to experiment.
We have to try things out in order to learn and see the consequences.
We need to see the big picture here. The concept of Steemit is unique in history so yes we are part of one big experiment here including the whales.
To me it shows the whales care about the platform.
If there is one thing that has come out of it is that I think Steemit needs like a notice board that all can go to find out what is going on or perhaps bot that informed of such things.
In my experience people just like to be informed.
If all knew it was an experiment then all would have acted differently in that they might have taken advantage of having more voting power. That is the only fault I can find in this test.
I would have liked them to coordinate with the development team to put a no Down Vote/Up Vote for a certain steem power as a soft fork for a limited time. Then the experiment would have been 100% accurate as to the outcome and effect, and would not have required the flagging to balance it out.
The key is cooperation and people convincing the developers. No clue how realistic the chances of that are or not.