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RE: Steemit Boycott... "Already?" - "yup"
You are really missing some important POINTS.
You'll also likely find out that REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH is a concept many people currently here find to be a rather EVIL thing.
If you can so easily generalize the opinion of "many" people here, then you further validate that my post is exactly the kind of thing that will fix the lack of diverse opinion that the current power structure tends to uphold. This isnt a clique. Its a community. This isnt a club. Its the internet. ;)
How do you think people are going to GET power? By people with steem power voting on them. I've seen posts with a lot of minnows voting on them get $0.00 simply because we have little power, and we vote a lot and miss that we are diluting our vote due to each vote reducing voting power which regenerates over 24 hours.
So the most likely way someone that is a minnow is going to be up lifted is when someone with steem power up votes a minnows post.
The people with the most steem power at the moment have likely been developing or part of the project for some time. They have started voting on people like @heidistravel, and @guerrint, and yes @xeroc. And those people have been getting FLAGGED on their posts.
All three of those people have more voting power now. They are the ones that are likely to lift minnows out of the bottom.
I am not GENERALIZING the opinion. I am clarifying that the opinion MANY people are missing. When a person here makes a lot of steem power, how does that hurt you? What did they do to you? How did they wrong you? How was your life negatively impacted?
WAIT: If one of them votes on you they can certainly now be in a power to HELP you. If one of them improperly FLAGs a post simply because they disagree with it (which they are not doing) they could HURT you.
So tell me, what did ANY of those people do to any of you talking boycott?
Seriously?
They gave you opportunity, yet you are unhappy some people get powerful votes and others do not?
Yet it didn't hurt you. The ONLY thing it may do is inspire envy. It truly hurts no one.
If you know a way that it does hurt someone though, I'd be interested in hearing it as that'd likely change my perspective a lot.
I think your response is great food for thought. Thank you.
What did these people do? Not vote on quality posts, while reaping more rewards than seem fair.
The flagging abuse, I agree, needs to stop.
Thanks for your honest thought and at least considering what I was sharing. It wasn't me trying to say I AM RIGHT and YOU ARE WRONG. It was more of a "hey, we're all dealing with something that's never existed before that is still in beta. How we think about other things may not actually apply as well here."
I don't particularly like how they vote either. I do think @xerox post for the Piston-GUI stuff was pretty awesome and deserving. A great way to help Open Source and free people from the shackles of having to work for Microsoft or Apple.
However, I also saw how they said developers are voting on stuff they think will grow the audience. We're a pretty intelligent group here (the early adopters) and the type of posts they have been up voting have attracted more people. So while I didn't particularly favor many of those posts... it is attracting people.
Another way to look at it is we are all shareholders. More people using the platform should benefit us all a lot.
Funny thing is. I have nothing to do with the POWER structure. Redistribution of wealth never fixes problems. EVER. What you need is people with different interests to USE their steem power they get to go to the NEW section and vote on things they like. We shouldn't even really be paying much attention to the trending section at this point. You don't get curation rewards for the majority of the stuff if you vote on it by the time it hits trending. You get the most from NEW, and you can get some from HOT if you get it when it's still pretty recent.