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RE: A simple, radical change to Steem that could fix most of our problems.
I'm sorry, but I see no logical basis for this argument that doesn't boil down to "my values are the right ones so yours are a fraud." These other people did not agree to your value system, and the fact that the system tries to force them to conform to it is evidence that the system is a fraud, not the users who are circumventing it.
This is why the most important element of this proposal is not who gets what rewards when but converting to a fully-consensual model of participation.
Arguments are not based in logic, but if they are good they proceed in logic. The premise of my argument is that the whitepaper is the founding document of the platform, which outlines the game. If you read the whitepaper you will see that the game is the only supported means of reward. Subverting the game is (currently) subverting the platform, which is fraud. I should note that the larger game outlined in the whitepaper is larger than the blogging platform somewhat, but not by much.
You are really abusing the concept of consent here. "A fully-consensual model of participation" sounds great, but in fact we already have that. No one can stop you doing what you want to do with your own stake, and you can't stop anyone doing what they want with there. In terms of a social network, that is never seen before.
Under the current system people are not entitled to rewards based on their stake, it is up to the free vote of potentially every single account on the platform. You propose to implement a change so that people will be entitled to rewards based on their stake. This has nothing to do with consent and everything to do with giving more options to stakeholders. It is potentially a good thing, but you are muddying the conceptual waters by attempting to frame it in terms of consent. I can see it being a politically useful misdirection, but that's all it is.
They absolutely are; those rewards are rshares. Or the right to vote a certain amount, if you like. It's one of only two types of actual blockchain rewards, along with block producer rewards (which are already paid in SP).
What the system likes to call "rewards" are not in any way rewards. They're an extremely complex multi-user currency exchange.
Nope, I'm just changing what currency they're paid in.