RE: Voting issues in the community: Sndbox Summer Camp Psychology – Task 1
I'm not too good about understanding people's motivation, but it is undeniable that minnows are being crushed here. I watch the daily reports of @arcange and our biggest growth category is "dead fish." This category is growing very fast now. We used to have minnows and redfish growing, but in the last 6 weeks those are both sinking fast.
At the same time - that report shows less than 10K in people above redfish status. This is after two years! And as you say, many of the big guys do not like little guys and mute them when they see them anyway.
It's all well and good to talk about the joy of posting to steemit and the great connections here, but if no one can make money except a few at the top this is not sustainable.
Also - many people I used to be able to count on for a vote of over $1 once in a while have now delegated most of the sp somewhere else - possibly to bidbots, but I don't really know.
That is worrisome I didn't knew the dead fish category was growing so fast.
Yes, the bid bots trend worries me too, steem was clearly not designed to work like that.
I see 2 majors things that could change that.
the hivemind/communities feature the developing team is currently working on
the steem competitor that is being developed by dan.
There is other option of course is that people setting up and backing the bid bots changed their mind and started to focus more on the community, but I suppose this is not easy.