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RE: How is the Flagging Whale-Votes Experiment Going?
The sort of harassment flagging I have been witnessing is definitely one of the reason why I didn't spend as much time on Steemit as I used to. This sort of behaviour pushes people away from the platform, not only me... It is sort of like someone who is trying to stop the platform from succeeding!? It is mad in so many ways, unless it is purposefully done to have this effect.
Thanks for sharing your rationale in relation to this madness. It is appreciated and enlightening. May the force stay with you and us all. Namaste :)
It's not "harassment", it's doing exactly what the system was designed to do, distribute rewards as users see fit.
I agree with this to a certain extent, but the problem is they don't actually see what is fit since they are using bots most of the time. If they actually voted up or down using their own view of the subject then I would be cool with it. You are actually engaging with this post so even though I might not agree I would respect a downvote from you more.
Nobody deserves $100+/day re-writing shit and adding a flare of "consciousness" to it, plain and simple. If his ideas were so original they wouldn't all require half a dozen references at the end. The feeling of entitlement is what needs to stop here, not the flagging.
Sure I see things that get over $100 a day that do not deserve it, but that's just my opinion. We have to protect the platform and encourage user participation at the same time. Do you think putting a cap on the max reward would help to distribute rewards more evenly? Maybe $5 max per post or something
I believe there are posts that are deserving of more than that. What I don't believe in is people writing content ONLY for the rewards like we're seeing in this case.
I agree with engagement here. Krnel is here for only one reason, money. If his posts added value this would be ok. But in his current form he is of no benefit t the growth or health of the platform, quite the opposite actually. We could support 20 other users of equal or greater talent with the amount of rewards that Krnel gets. As we can all see now that the rewards are gone so is "4 post per day" Krnel. In addition to that most of his posts are full new age religious lies and circle jerk philosophy.
*distribute rewards as the user with the most SP sees fit.
*users
And, you can always buy more Steem and power up to SP!! (It's a little easier than writing rants)
I found that just mining Ethereum and having it auto convert through blocktrades was really easy as well. Things are tied up with Lbry mining at the moment, but will probably be back to steem once things stabilize here.
I'm not writing rants. Apart from this, but that was a joke 😊
Although it is users, other whales are having their upvotes negated, so somewhatish it is the user with the most SP.
I plan to buy more steem (not to be a whale, but just to invest some), but I'm currently watching the price. I've got a feeling it's going up mid/end April and not coming down again so waiting and watching to get good gains.
And although I believe that the Steem blockchain and steemit platform will be successful I do believe that the concentration and consolidation of power is a serious issue that needs addressed. One of the things that attracts me to cryptocurrency is the code behind it, allowing it to surpass and overcome many failings of fiat currencies. I don't think it is wrong for whales to have so much power, but currently it is weighted too much, or at least appears that way to me.
I agree. People should be free to use their voting power however they wish. Who are we to tell others what to do with their steem power? Value is subjective and we're never all going to agree about what things are worth.