Yes. There is an easy way to test this. Every account worth more than $8000 all agree to not upvote any content for 24/hours. We would have a real idea of how people vote and how whales handle the moderation.
@timcliff I'm serious man, there is only 259 accounts, some of them owned by the same person. I would say there is probably less than 200 persons to convince and made aware of.
Btw I'd appreciate a re-steem if you like the idea. As I said in my post I don't care about the upvotes, the visibility and opinions of devs matter more to me. Thanks
I did resteem. I think it is an interesting idea, and I would be in support of seeing it played out.
That said, convincing those 200 (or however many there are) people to give up their curation rewards and their power over the platform is not going to be an easy task (IMO).
Whales will not really give up their power, they will have the same voting weight but will only be able to downvote.
That said, convincing those 200 (or however many there are) people to give up their curation rewards and their power over the platform is not going to be an easy task (IMO).
I get what you are saying but if the community can't take action to align incentives with 99.8% of its users then it's pretty much doomed.
If the whales think the steem value will be able to sustain indefinitely while ignoring everyone in the system they will be in for a surprise.
I am actually part of these 200 (or however many there are) and I don't mind change because I understand that demand for steem is primordial.A proposal that could drastically improve demand should be a no brainer. It's common sense really. Thanks for the resteem.
Realistically that never works. Who owns many of those accounts isn't even widely known (possibly known by no one else), so who do you even talk to to negotiate this agreement? Others are not really that active in the community, have their voting run by bots on autopilot/trails. So again, this isn't feasible.
However, it might be workable to get a few major whale accounts to do this, starting with the dev accounts that are run by guilds.
But in reality we already ran this experiment, in part, when the guilds went on vacation for a week or two. Smaller account holders noticed a big increase in their influence.
who do you even talk to to negotiate this agreement?
Among top 50 accounts 34 have been online in the last 24 hours, 6 have been dormant with no curation rewards. There is only a few account that are offline with bots on autopilot.
I think it would be easy to just set up a "minnow day" in advance, steemit could display this on the interface for about a month and Im sure a very large majority of users would be aware and go along with it, we don't need everyone to stop voting to see the effect of this. The large majority would do.
:D Purge day :D , I'm not sure I like your idea , you seem like a man who is fond of gambling and odds , I'm not sure that would be good for anyone, which whale will work for years/invest to have power of vote and then be welcomed into a slot machine :)
@j3dy
95% of the current whales did not buy their steem power, they mined it when only a select few knew about the steem blockchain and the steem token was worth nothing
Yes. There is an easy way to test this. Every account worth more than $8000 all agree to not upvote any content for 24/hours. We would have a real idea of how people vote and how whales handle the moderation.
I question your definition of 'easy' ;)
@timcliff I'm serious man, there is only 259 accounts, some of them owned by the same person. I would say there is probably less than 200 persons to convince and made aware of.
Btw I'd appreciate a re-steem if you like the idea. As I said in my post I don't care about the upvotes, the visibility and opinions of devs matter more to me. Thanks
I did resteem. I think it is an interesting idea, and I would be in support of seeing it played out.
That said, convincing those 200 (or however many there are) people to give up their curation rewards and their power over the platform is not going to be an easy task (IMO).
might work for a day, but yeah they need to get on the same boat and reach a consensus as far as i know they are in different minds.
Whales will not really give up their power, they will have the same voting weight but will only be able to downvote.
I get what you are saying but if the community can't take action to align incentives with 99.8% of its users then it's pretty much doomed.
If the whales think the steem value will be able to sustain indefinitely while ignoring everyone in the system they will be in for a surprise.
I am actually part of these 200 (or however many there are) and I don't mind change because I understand that demand for steem is primordial.A proposal that could drastically improve demand should be a no brainer. It's common sense really. Thanks for the resteem.
Realistically that never works. Who owns many of those accounts isn't even widely known (possibly known by no one else), so who do you even talk to to negotiate this agreement? Others are not really that active in the community, have their voting run by bots on autopilot/trails. So again, this isn't feasible.
However, it might be workable to get a few major whale accounts to do this, starting with the dev accounts that are run by guilds.
But in reality we already ran this experiment, in part, when the guilds went on vacation for a week or two. Smaller account holders noticed a big increase in their influence.
Among top 50 accounts 34 have been online in the last 24 hours, 6 have been dormant with no curation rewards. There is only a few account that are offline with bots on autopilot.
I think it would be easy to just set up a "minnow day" in advance, steemit could display this on the interface for about a month and Im sure a very large majority of users would be aware and go along with it, we don't need everyone to stop voting to see the effect of this. The large majority would do.
Well good luck. Many times things like this have been discussed, but never has it actually happened.
better yet, program steemit to randomly pick 13 days out of each month when whale upvotes do not apply
So one day your upvote is not worth 1 cents and the next its worth $1. This is going to be too confusing for people
if they are aware of whats going on, it would be a ton of fun, and encourage them to buy steem power on the days when their votes are worth nothing
:D Purge day :D , I'm not sure I like your idea , you seem like a man who is fond of gambling and odds , I'm not sure that would be good for anyone, which whale will work for years/invest to have power of vote and then be welcomed into a slot machine :)
@j3dy
95% of the current whales did not buy their steem power, they mined it when only a select few knew about the steem blockchain and the steem token was worth nothing