Yes, this is something like the pattern I went through here too (minus the massive delegation :) ). Any system that uses currency on a planet with a massive wealth gap is going to find itself reflecting the wealth gap too. All such gaps must be healed now and to do so is a process of emotional healing and enlightenment that replaces unlovingness with lovingness. Technology alone cannot do this healing for us and truly it starts in the hearts of each individual. Steem is, for me, a great marker and tool in this transformation, since it allows us to participate in the transformation by communicating and sharing understanding... while also allowing us to directly observe the wealth gap and even adjust it as we go. In some ways this is a bit like the way that technologically evolved fitness gyms now often have ways of carefully monitoring the fitness of each visitor. ;)
Actually, to that end, I have created Steem Ocean which is a site that monitors the Steem blockchain and provides stats (and will also gradually provide new features that are missing from steemit.com). One of the features is a voter ranking table that displays voting behaviours and ranks all active voters relative to each other, attempting to display their level of altruism (It's just a rough guide). Currently your account is #2 on the whole platform for the amount of money paid out in self votes and as a result your account is near the bottom in terms of it's altruism ranking.. I'm curious as to what your comment on that may be. I am in no way judging you here and I'm sure that most people, given a large delegation, would be using it to upvote themselves.. Do you feel that I should change the algorithm in some way? Maybe accounting for how much resteeming each account does to promote other accounts would be a good idea? You can learn more about how the voter ranking algorithm is calculated here.
Wishing you well!
With some careful thought and input from you and others, this is the formula we're going to be trying for the next week and if it works, make a post about it. Please let me know what you think!
ADAM VS THE MAN - Steemit & Production Protocol
7 days a week
@adamkokesh
1 interview of a specific person from an event
1 man-on-the-street video
1 podcast video (podcast will be just 1/week but very long, up to three hours, covering all the news of the week and answering email questions)
1 audio podcast production/forgotten freedom fighter post/written blog post/special announcement/old video when relevant to the current conversation/special event video
We will limit to four posts per day on the @adamkokesh Steemit account.
@adamkokesh-pics
up to 2 original memes
up to 2 candid photos
These will each get a 5% upvote and one will get RSed every day until that channel has built up some following and then scale back to once every few days.
Six full upvotes minimum per day to the rest of the community (we will do as many as we can so long as our voting power stays up above the 80% threshold), they will be distributed as follows:
1 for comments - we will try to upvote as many as 100 comments/per day at 1-3% strength until it adds up to a 100% upvote
1 in 10% upvotes for good content across the platform
4 (minimum) in full upvotes and RSs for four best posts of the day and introduction posts
Excellent! Thanks for giving the issue such careful attention - I imagine you will gain a great deal of support as a result of your engagement with the community, which is ultimately worth more than money in many ways. :)
Oh there's an adamkokesh-pics? Maybe I'll check on that and follow it too. Yay!
In regards to the number of self upvoted posts, we have made adjustments to our protocol and will be reducing that amount per day, along with joining some curation trails to help share the love even more and a few other things. Thank you again for the feedback and your work on Steem Ocean, a great tool we can use to help utilize the platform better.
Excellent news. Thanks for replying! If you don't mind, could you also address why you are heavily upvoting accounts (even here on this very post) who you are now aware have issued death threats (even if he is a crazy old man) and called for your former staff members to be murdered? @fundposhprincess is the account. This account has also stated that @larkenrose and I are gay Jewish "Zionazis." Lol. Wondering why you are still heavily rewarding this violent (if inane and sort of crazy) individual, now that you have been made fully aware of the explicit threats which have been made. Cheers!
Thank you for the response and for creating Steem Ocean! I will take a more in depth look here in a bit, but at first glance I think accounting for resteems would be a great way to encourage users to do them even more!
@adamkokesh stated:
@ura-soul provided some stats:
@adamkokesh, if you have a second, could you address @ura-soul's comment a little bit more specifically? Maybe you missed this part of his thoughtful comment.