RE: The Dolphin cocoon project! Input and help wanted!
"I actually powered down to be a minnow again because the illusion that dolphin status changed anything in the past was kind of a joke."
You're better off being a minnow and rewarded with minnowcommunism (your posts are over-rewarded because minnow).
Attempt to move up and the cartel of whales keeps you out. Dolphins work way, way harder than minnows for lower compensation. I used to write daily posts far better than what get's Curied, and made a routine 10-14$, more than half of which was my and my girlfriend's votes.
There is no reason to hold Steem except to lose money or give money away. I too am powering down.
"The whales are mostly just selling votes and renting their SP."
Yes, and try doing this as a non-whale, you get witch-hunted. Don't vote the way people like? Witch-hunted. Vote for only a few authors? Witch-hunted.
Steem is full of SJW Robber Barons telling you what to do with what is yours:
This comment is exactly what I mean, but you disagreed with mine?
TLDR: Not disagreeing, having some sort of context confusion here.
No, I wasn't trying to disagree. I thought you were highlighting " who was running the show around Steemit".
It's Whales (the robber barons that run the culture) and minnows (agitating for and receiving minnow communism). Dolphins are the slave labor putting enough content onto the site to keep it from being tossed into the Buzzfeed bin. I totally see the desert Snekky is referring to above.
I'm thinking you may have meant who was running the show at MSP, maybe, but I'm still having trouble sussing out the context. If that's what you meant, yeah, most whales aren't doing a damn thing. Aside from Aggroed, Eturnerx, Ausbitbank, V4Vapid, and myself delegating I don't really see any whales in the delegation list, and lord knows all the DJs, mods, and behind the scenes types (not just at MSP, but SFT, Ramble, etc) are pretty much all...not whales:
https://mspdelegator.herokuapp.com/mspdelegators
Yes, now you got it. MSP, not steemit.
Right, sorry about that, I think I misinterpreted the context a little there. (In my defense, I was focusing on "that show" being Steemit, because I'm pretty fed up with "that show" at the moment. I see your context correctly places MSP in the article "that", and it was my focus being elsewhere that caused me to misinterpret.)
Heh, no need for defense, we are on the same side :)