RE: Posting, Curating and Self Voting: How we should adress the flaws.
I think everything is fine with the recent HARDFORK. Yes everyone is getting less payouts, but that is only going to be short lived.
Also if we believe this platform will ever grow to compete against facebook/Instagram we have to keep the self voting how it is....Not everyone is going to be a "blogger" on this platform. Some people on facebook just love to comment and like other peoples stuff. If they want to upvote themselves with their 1 Steem power they are given when they sign up, then so what. At least they aren't spending their time facebook.com. This is growing the platform when they are on our site...Plus If they buy steempower then that is even better.
Our goal should be getting people away from facebook and on Steemit....Not worrying about the money so much....The money will come family when Steemit takes more market share from Facebook/Instagram:)
I understand what you're saying. But if people refuse give value to the community, the whole system crashes. And it wouldn't be an environment worth spending time in so we will never reach that level of success to take the market share. A nice balance is what we need :)
The goal is to get this platform ready for 100's of millions of people. It's currently far from ready for that. The algorithms and UI need major improvements first.
Also Facebook is very different from Steemit, so you can't really expect to get most of the people to "switch".