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RE: Truth and fairness vs popularity. What to do when a post that says another post is wrong and gets more reward than the original post, which was the one that is correct?
Thanks for the write up good fruit for thought!
I am strongly considering giving a downvote. So far the only post I ever downvoted was my own. I had a duplicate post as the first one got no traction at all and I knew it should have gotten more than $10. Then when the repost got $100+, the original was downvoted and that made sense to me, so I also downvoted it to kill it.
Here it is about affecting somebody else's money, but it is being earned by being wrong about the original post...
I think a lot of it is the fact the most people don't necessarily understand the mechanics of up-voting with Steem Power and how curation rewards are generated. Most don't know how to effectively take advantage of the curation rewards by reading, up-voting, and participating in the discussion early on in a quality post. Rather they just up-vote what everybody else is up-voting instead of reading it; they just think "Hey this post is popular I'm going to up-vote it as well and get paid big for it!" and thats exactly what they do unfortunately.
that's a very rare commodity.. honesty